From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 13 15:59:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22574 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:59:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22566; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:59:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA00102; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:28:04 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA54774; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:28:03 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:28:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wolfram Schneider Cc: Wolfram Schneider , 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> References: <199901121614.IAA09958@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990113122509.U8886@freebie.lemis.com> <19990113024527.A1177@panke.de.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990113024527.A1177@panke.de.freebsd.org>; from Wolfram Schneider on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 02:45:27AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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