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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:23:01 -0800
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James Risner wrote:
> 
> Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group (cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca) wrote:
> : Minix, Linux, and Coherent 286 came out around '90 or '91.
> 
> 386BSD existed before Linux was even started.
> Or at least Linus claims 386BSD existed before he started work
> on Linux.

When I was looking for Unix for my 386sx, Linux 0.09 or 0.10 was
my only option. 386BSD only came out a few weeks/months after
Linux. At the time, 386BSD was hard to install and wouldn't fit/run
on my 386sx/16 with 4MB RAM. Otherwise, I might be using xxxBSD
by now.

H.J.