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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices Date: 17 Mar 1996 23:47:38 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4ii8aq$mog@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> <4hn5kf$4pp@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4ht83p$dfi@park.uvsc.edu> <4hunj1$1re@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4hvats$153@park.uvsc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: > ] 386BSD 0.0 was also available for public FTP. I seem to remember that > ] i've got my copy in March, 1992. > > That's about when I got my 0.1 (end of March, 1992). I think > 0.0 was maybe as far back as end-of-December, 1991. You'd have > to as Jesus Monroy to be sure. 8-). ..or perhaps my floppies? *tapp*tapp*tapp*back now* j@uriah 158% mread 'b:*.*' . Copying BIN01.00 Copying BIN01.01 Copying BIN01.02 Copying BIN01.03 Copying BIN01.04 j@uriah 159% cat bin01.0* | tar -tvzf - tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive. tar: Skipping to next file header... tar (child): write to compression program short 512 bytes Ah, allright, they were gzipped cpio files, okay: j@uriah 160% cat bin01.0* | gzip -dc | cpio -ivt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 1757 Jul 15 1992 BUGNFIX.FORM -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 3936 Jul 15 1992 CAREWARE.INFO -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 4752 Jul 15 1992 CONTRIB.LIST -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2846 Jul 15 1992 COPYRIGHT -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 28601 Jul 15 1992 MANIFEST.bin01.files -rw-r--r-- 1 64543 64543 10942 Jul 15 1992 REGISTRATION .. You must have got a 0.1 prerelease by end of March. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)