Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:28:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Research UNIX derived from BSD (was: cvs commit: src/share/misc bsd-family-tree) Message-ID: <19990114102803.G8886@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990113024527.A1177@panke.de.freebsd.org>; from Wolfram Schneider on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 02:45:27AM %2B0100 References: <199901121614.IAA09958@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990113122509.U8886@freebie.lemis.com> <19990113024527.A1177@panke.de.freebsd.org>
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On Wednesday, 13 January 1999 at 2:45:27 +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > On 1999-01-13 12:25:09 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> Revision Changes Path >>> 1.10 +11 -6 src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree >> >> Another interesting error in this file shows the Eighth Edition >> (misspelt in the file) as being descended from the Seventh Edition. >> In fact, it turns out it was derived from 4.1cBSD. Here's a quote >> from Dennis Ritchie, posted to Warren Toomey: > > Seems a error in the book `A quarter century of UNIX.' > > The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, page 5: > Eighth Edition system started with BSD 4.1 (4.1, without 'c') Probably. This message from Dennis arrived without a date, but it's less than a week old. Still, I think we could agree that 4.1BSD includes 4.1cBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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