Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:54:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD early days... (fwd) Message-ID: <19990223135401.N93492@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990222185713.7463V-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800 References: <19990223130123.F93492@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990222185713.7463V-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Monday, 22 February 1999 at 19:03:17 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> [moved to -chat] >> >> On Monday, 22 February 1999 at 14:42:27 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> >>> I was asked to write a bit on my memories.. >>> so having done it, I figured it needed to be shared out and maybe those >>> there might comment. (also tell me how to spell cgd's name) >>> >>> In 1990 I started working for TFS, a branch of TRW, a large american >>> company with fingers in many industries. The section I was working for was >>> doing back-end processing systems for banks and similar financial >>> institutions. As part of these systems they needed small unix-based >>> workstations with specialised hardware. We chose to use MACH 2.5 which was >>> based upon BSD4.3 for much of it's userland and kernel functions. >>> In 1991 >> >> If we're talking about 386BSD, it was 1992. Version 0.0 was released >> in March 1992, version 0.1 was released on 14 July 1992, only 6 weeks >> before NetBSD 0.9. I'm attaching a very few of the messages I saved, >> mainly from USENET, at the time. > > Actually I think you are write and wrong.. I guess it was mid 1992 for > 386BSD, but it's got to be one YEAR and 6 weeks till NetBSD I think you'll > find.. Oops, yes. How did I miss that? Of course, it was all in the attachments. > there wouldn't have been time for us to develope the patchkit, LKMs > the SCSI system, boot/install floppies etc. all in 6 weeks. NetBSD > inheritted all this from 386BSD when they diverged. I'm sure that > charles Hnnum an dothers were active on ref for a long > time.. certainly not 6 weeks. At least it must have been over 6 > months.. This was 0.9. I don't know when they did the first release. 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 freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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