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From: dobson@info.usuhs.mil (Michael Dobson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 386BSD Release 1.0 Ships!!!
Date: 21 Nov 1994 13:55:06 -0500
Organization: National Naval Medical Center
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References: <jmonroyCz4rG2.9wH@netcom.com> <3a7g56$2tq@obelix.cica.es> <3adah0$2vs@rivendell.apana.org.au>
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In article <3adah0$2vs@rivendell.apana.org.au>,
Phil Homewood <phil@rivendell.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Jonathan Noel Tombs (jon@obelix.cica.es) wrote:
>: What is this talking about "Today is one of..." Linux existed for about a
>: year before 386BSD 0.1, and was in a usable state about 6 months before the
>
>Ah, but 386bsd 0.0 was around before Linux................
>
I beg to differ. I was running Linux (0.91 or earlier) well before 386bsd
0.0 was available. It may have been described in the Dr. Dobb's articles
but wasn't available on the 'Net until well after working versions of Linux
were out. Ask Chris D (the agate 386bsd ftp site maintainer) when the
source and binaries became available then ask Linus when the first fully
usable Linux releases with bootable floppy images became available. A
kernel on a bootable floppy with most of the commands in /bin & /usr/bin
was out in early to mid '91 as I recall. Looking at some of my records for
386bsd {0.0,0.1} it didn't appear until '92.
Mike
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