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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!resonex!michael From: michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) Subject: Re: 386BSD 1.0 - Stop it, please... Message-ID: <1994May16.093947.15174@resonex.com> Organization: Resonex Holding Corporation, Fremont CA References: <2r6c10$kis@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 09:39:47 GMT Lines: 28 In article <2r6c10$kis@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Lars Grupe <lunde@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >This whole 386BSD 1.0 "Announcement" ist starting to get on my nerve. >A word to our friend Jesus: If one announces the release of a software >product he should do more than just state the version number and >the price. As long as there is nothing like some RELEASE NOTES...stop it! If Monroy's announcement was about the same thing I saw advertised in the most recent Dr Dobb's Journal, then it would appear that calling this "386BSD 1.0" is a complete misnomer. The advert in DDJ was for a product called something roughly like "386BSD Development CD V1.0" (I don't remember the exact name, and my DDJ is at home.) In other words, the advert seemed to be saying it was V1.0 of the *CD*, and not the nearly mythical 386BSD 1.0. The advert did not explicitly mention the version of 386BSD, and in fact read in such a way that I would not expect it to be anything different from what has already been available from the net for many months --- it's just a convenient packaging of everything onto CD. If I'm wrong about this assessment, then feel free to correct me, and certainly don't take my word as gospel. But it is the way things appeared to me. -- ____ Children of a future age ____ \ / Reading this indignant page \ / \/ Know that in a former time \/ Michael Bryan Love, sweet love, was thought a crime michael@resonex.com