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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NetBSD FreeBSD LINUX and BSDI Unixes
Date: 14 Feb 94 14:15:13
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 12 Feb 1994 18:11:24 GMT
In article <2jj64c$grq@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>Agreed, but the 'i386' part still is mainly due to Bill' initial work
>in that area.
I never said that it wasn't. I said that it didn't contain significant
amounts of Bill's post-net/2 (i.e "what Bill released as 386BSD") work.
The original comment was that NetBSD was derived from "[Jolitz's] port
of Net/2 to the i386", which is commonly referred to as "386BSD".
NetBSD doesn't contain very much at all of jolitz's post-Net/2 work,
which is why i said "net/2 derived."
Hell, in a way, all of this crap is "v6-derived," or "2.xBSD-derived,"
but it's common practice to pick the last relevant release a piece of
software is derived from. For NetBSD, that's *NOT* "386BSD", that's
Net/2.
It's not a matter of giving Bill credit; he was the inspiration behind
the i386 port of BSD, and he did most of the code that was in net/2.
However, he doesn't deserve 'special mention' w.r.t. NetBSD, at least,
not any more.
chris
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