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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: New 386bsd User
Date: 22 Nov 1994 17:47:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <170768D82S85.UZS06A@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <CHARNIER.94Nov22142044@baobab.lirmm.fr> <MICHAELV.94Nov22102407@mindbender.headcandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.94Nov22102407@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>
>386BSD is old and unsupported.  NetBSD and FreeBSD are derivatives of
>386BSD that are much more current and supported.  You don't want
>386BSD, but one of its derivative systems: NetBSD or FreeBSD.

Actually, it's no longer fair or accurate to call FreeBSD or
NetBSD "386BSD derivatives".  They've both been almost completely
re-hosted on top of 4.4!  In FreeBSD 2.0's case, and I'm almost
positive NetBSD 1.0's as well (I genuinely haven't looked at it yet),
so little of the original 386BSD code remains that it's about as
accurate to say they're Version 6 based as it is to say they're
386BSD based.

					Jordan
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>   Michael L. VanLoon     michaelv@HeadCandy.com     michaelv@iastate.edu
>  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
>     Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
>               In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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