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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 386BSD Release 1.0 Ships!!!
Date: 28 Nov 1994 15:54:23 +0100
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In article <3aqqea$b4u@info.usuhs.mil>, dobson@info.usuhs.mil (Michael Dobson) writes:
|> 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

True. I remember precisely taking home Linux boot floppies *before* 0.0 was
released only to discover that the printout of the README stated that (at that
time) Linux would not support ESDI drives.

Bernard