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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whatever happend to 386BSD?
Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:02:44 GMT
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tyme@visi.com () wrote:

> I was just wondering if the source code and actually the whole operating
> system are still availible. And if so where i could find it. does someone
> have it on tape :) or something?

I've got 386BSD 0.1 on some 30-odd 1.2 MB floppies. :)  Too bad, i trashed
my 0.0 floppies.

> I think the last version realeased was 0.2? was it not? thanks in advance.

Nope, 0.2 was the long-awaited vaporware version that never actually
happened, and that finally caused the NetBSD and FreeBSD groups to
independently found their projects, based on the 386BSD 0.1.2.4
(version 0.1 patchkit level 0.2.4) source tree.

There also was a 386BSD 1.0, but it was available on a commercial
CD-ROM only, for a bunch of money, mainly intended as an educational
piece of work.  Barely runnable on any real-world machine.

Have you looked whether gatekeeper.dec.com might still have 386BSD
0.1? :)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j