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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!hunter.premier.net!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: 20 Oct 1996 15:25:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <54dg9h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <545ii8$1kc@news1.infinet.com> <546ni4$jfk@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <0mNn=x200YUg1TN9k0@andrew.cmu.edu> <0mNoq7200YUg1TN0A0@andrew.cmu.edu> <DzHGso.1sE@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> 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:29673 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4771 comp.os.linux.misc:136658 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > >So a 1991 release of 386BSD is not ruled out... > > 386BSD 0.0 was released in March 1992. > > Below is a message about it that I received (it had been forwarded many > times) on Friday 13 March 1992. That's the most authentic historic message for it i've seen recently. And it is identical to my memories. > I immediately ordered a new disk and a > floating point coprocessor! Me too. :-) -- 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. ;-)