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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news2.cais.com!cais.cais.com!mcgraw From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History Date: 6 Apr 1996 01:50:19 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4k4ikr$4dd@news2.cais.com> References: <4k1nue$lm8@orb.direct.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16581 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2731 Ken Clark (ken@direct.ca) wrote: : Hi. The recent discussions on UNIX history got me to thinking about the : "Good Old Days," and was wondering if the flames have settled enough for : people who know to give an account of what happened circa 1993 with *BSD. : I have read Jordan Hubbard's FreeBSD history, but it seems to duck the : What happened to Jolitz? What happened that so radically changed his : position on 386BSD? (If you read the old release notes, there were very : grandiose plans). What happened that caused him not to make any releases Betcha there's not as much nostalgia out there as you might hope for, Ken. Gosh, I always thought that you couldn't get much worse than the politics and egomania of an Anthropology Department, but sheesh, these CS guys are a major piece of work. ;-)