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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Free Unix History (was Re: On Kaleb Keithley's neg. comments on Linux (Xaw3d Distrib.)) Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:42:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <54986h$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <545ii8$1kc@news1.infinet.com> <546ni4$jfk@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <0mNn=x200YUg1TN9k0@andrew.cmu.edu> <0mNoq7200YUg1TN0A0@andrew.cmu.edu> <5481vo$o3n@newshost.lanl.gov> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29539 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4762 comp.os.linux.misc:136288 Roy A. McCrory <mccrory@erebus.fc.dna.mil> wrote: > According to a letter I received from Lynne Jolitz (dated Dec 31, 1992) the > release date for 386BSD Release 0.1 was Bastille Day 1992 (July 14). Hmmmmm.... j@uriah 456% env TZ=America/Los_Angeles ls -lT total 112 -rw-rw-r-- 1 j bin 1757 Jul 14 20:06:02 1992 BUGNFIX.FORM -rw-rw-r-- 1 j bin 3936 Jul 14 20:06:02 1992 CAREWARE.INFO -rw-rw-r-- 1 j bin 4752 Jul 14 20:04:37 1992 CONTRIB.LIST -rw-r--r-- 1 j bin 2846 Jul 14 20:04:06 1992 COPYRIGHT -rw-rw-r-- 1 j bin 28601 Jul 15 01:29:30 1992 MANIFEST.bin01.files -rw-r--r-- 1 j bin 10942 Jul 14 20:06:02 1992 REGISTRATION -rw-rw-r-- 1 j bin 2724 Jul 14 20:06:02 1992 SOFTWARE.FORM That's the root directory of the 386BSD 0.1 bindist. Well, i've extracted them to the local disk, since i noticed that the timezone skew might be important. :) As you can see, it has apparently been made ready for release by July 14 US Pacific time (it's already been July 15 in my timezone), but the final file list was done in the early morning of July 15. -- 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. ;-)