30 Aug
2011
30 Aug
'11
7:04 a.m.
On Monday, 29 August 2011 at 17:16:37 -0400, Jason Stevens wrote:
I was looking at Tom Yam's 4.0 BSD
'starunix' restoration project, and I had
a question about the version number that is reported vs the dates... I'm
using wikipedia as a source (I know I know..)
Anyways Tom's 4.0 boots up like this:
: hp(0,0)vmunix
87844+15464+130300 start 0x530
VM/UNIX (Berkeley Version 4.1) 11/10/80
But the wiki page lists 4.1 being from June of 1981, and 4.0 being from
November of 1980.. Did 4.0 BSD ship reporting itself as 4.1? I guess there
is the possibility that the kernel may include patches to bring it up to
4.1?
Interesting. I've taken a look at the sources from the CD set and
found that the text there (in /usr/src/sys/sys/machdep.c) is the same
as above. Looking further, the entire directory has the same files in
4.0 and 4.1, with the same modification dates. So it looks as the 4.0
sources accidentally got replaced by the 4.1 sources.
Does anyone have tape dumps of 4.0 & 4.1 ...?
mckusick might. I'm copying him.
Greg
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