31 Aug
2024
31 Aug
'24
2:15 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 4:44 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling(a)kev009.com> wrote:
Yeah you got it, this is the BSDi product that was previously called
BSD/386 and eventually wound down at WindRiver.
What I've gleaned so far is like you said, some of the 386bsd patch
set and then maybe the 4.4-lite refresh along the way. The final
version has FreeBSD's CAM.
https://gunkies.org/wiki/BSD/386 and the parent page on seem to
suggest it originated off Net/2 directly.
Very hard to find a cohesive story for some reason.
I have been playing around a bit with this in VirtualBox.
Maybe due to the backing company, I had assumed it was a commercial FreeBSD variant. But
looking a bit harder, it seems like it was a distinct strain of 386bsd like NetBSD and
FreeBSD. There seems to be scant information about it online. Does anyone know if its
story is told somewhere?
Wasn't this from BSDi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD/OS It wasn't a
commercial version of 386bsd, per se, but based on a porting to the PC work Jolitz had
done prior to 386BSD. They shared a common (very recent) ancestor. And there was much
drama around it all. Or is this something else?
Warner