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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [q] Why (Free & Net)BSD use different binaries?
Date: 14 Feb 94 18:31:23
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: storm@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 14 Feb 1994 22:20:47 GMT
In article <2jotfv$irj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>in the beginning, there was 386bsd. Bill Jolitz, a weird guy
>to say the least, ported the BSD 4.3 Net/2 code to intel i386
>chip.
False. He ported 4.3BSD-Reno to the i386. Net/2 was the first
released 'product' of that porting work.
>thus, to sum it up:
>
>386bsd is the common ancestor. netbsd and freebsd are diverging
>code trees that both do pretty much the same thing. [run
>unix :-)]. both will likely upgrade to BSD 4.4-lite at the easrliest
>opportunity.
actually, Net/2 is the common ancestor.
what the net saw as '386BSD' was derived from that. FreeBSD is more-or-less
directly derived from 386BSD. NetBSD is better described as being Net/2
derived, because all of the post-Net/2 '386BSD' code has been removed from
it, give or take.
chris
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