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From: frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (phrank the punk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 386BSD Release 1.0 Ships!!!
Date: 10 Dec 1994 00:27:09 -0500
Organization: ifan (inst. for appl. nonsense)
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.sax.de) wrote:
: A minor correction:
: Michael Dobson <dobson@info.usuhs.mil> wrote:
: >>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.
: 386BSD 0.0 appeared in March, 1992. When i've been looking around for
: it on a nearby ftp server, i've seen the word ``Linux'' for the first
: time, and i've also been looking a bit around there. But it's been
: much earlier than the 0.9X versions appeared (and Linux started to
: become more interesting for magazines than before), it must have been
: some early 0.17 or so kernel version.
however, i remember something like a 'linus-statement' (in 'some' interview
or so)) like: if he (i) would have had something like 386bsd(0.0) (@ the time
he started off with minix), he would have used 'it'.... (or similar, feel free
to correct me on that ;-)
btw.: i love them all (the free *nix-like o-systems).
so long,
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