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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
Date: 8 Mar 1996 22:35:30 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> <4hnf3b$2rh@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group) writes:
> > NetBSD was the first stable distribution based on 386BSD ('93 ?).
> > 386BSD with (numerous) selected patches became FreeBSD ('94 ?).
FreeBSD 1.0 and NetBSD 0.8 appeared about the same time. My FreeBSD
1.0 CD-ROM is labelled ``December 1993''.
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