From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 24 20:49:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA16003 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:49:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA15997 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA01048; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:50:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703250450.UAA01048@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Guy Helmer cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Anniversary In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:36:37 CST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:50:43 -0800 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >It's been five years this month since FreeBSD's ancestor, 386BSD 0.0, hit >the streets. Anyone remember how much fun it was to install? It was...challenging. Bill once commented to me "Anyone who was actually able to successfully install 0.0 deserves a prize". It's been so long that I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall that you had to do everything by hand with the distribution being a bunch of floppies that were all cat'd together...and the supported hardware configuration was basically: pccons, floppy, and wd controller. If you weren't a computer expert (especially with low level details), you didn't have a snowball's chance. I installed it (if you can call what had to be done as an "installation") on a 386SX-25 with 4MBs of RAM. ...oh what fun THAT was. :-) -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project