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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: 10 Mar 1996 14:05:21 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:

> ] 1992,      Jolitz released 386BSD to the public
>                                     ^- 0.1.  0.0 was released
>                                        before that to a small group.

386BSD 0.0 was also available for public FTP.  I seem to remember that
i've got my copy in March, 1992.

> NetBSD 0.8:  Nov 1994	<first release>
> FreeBSD 1.0: Dec 1994	<first release>

Hmm, Terry, my FreeBSD 1.0 CD-ROM claims ``Dec 1993''. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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