Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:40:33 +0100 (CET) From: Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> To: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@nic.nl> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <200001111107.MAA09106@114046.kema.nl>
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: > > And the triva question is why was there 1BSD, 2BSD, 3BSD, and > then the switch to 4.0BSD - 4.4BSD. > > > As far as I remember, 1BSD was v6 stuff only BSD internal distributions > (and good friends) with Pascal & ex; 2BSD was for v7 licences with > csh (job control) and vi; 3BSD for v32 licences and virtual memory > for the VAX and with 4BSD FFS was introduced, lisp and for DARPA > later on networking stuff in 4.1c. Something like that. According to Kirk McKusick's chapter in «Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution» 4.1BSD was originally planned to be released as 5BSD, but there were objections from AT&T. AT&T said that the customers would be confused if both SysV and 5BSD were available. (Huh?) Berkeley agreed to keep the major number at 4 and only increase the minor number. That's why Berkeley released subsequent releases as 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4BSD. See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@gtf.ol.no Merkantilvegen 59HB7, | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no N-2815 GJØVIK, NORWAY |+47 61139424 || +47 63874242 Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.3 & Pine 4.10 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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