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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13634 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3626 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD) Date: 5 Oct 1994 18:02:51 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 22 Message-ID: <36upob$ju6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> <hart.780959657@apanix.apana.org.au> <36hof6$de4@quagga.ru.ac.za> <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com>, Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote: >: FreeBSD 2.0, for instance, is no longer >: based on 386BSD, but is rather based on 4.4-Lite -- if you did a cvs >: checkout of the initial code in our tree you would (if you were lucky) >: get 4.4-Lite back. >: > And let's say you have a *current* version and it > hobbles on a few select machines, there is no chance > in hell you can convince me that the *whole* 386bsd > code tree has been eliminated... Well over 95% of the code has been 'eliminated'. Considering that 386bsd was over 90% BSD + 10%, I'd say we're doing pretty good. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.