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From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry)
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Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History
Date: 6 Apr 1996 01:50:19 GMT
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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.  ;-)