1 Sep
2024
1 Sep
'24
4:48 a.m.
Certainly, that was the impression I got from reading the 386BSD
text/help files that came with the 386BSD CDROM Dr Dobbs were selling.
The 386BSD was Net/2 ported to the 386.
Wesley Parish
On 1/09/24 01:07, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: Noel
Chiappa
Was there ever actually a '386/BSD'?
I decided (for not particular reason) to take a quick read through Marshall
Kirk McKusick's "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix From AT&T-Owned to Freely
Redistributable":
https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
and he refers to Jolitz's system as "386/BSD" (apparently incorrectly).
(So
there's a lesson there; even people who '_were_ there' can occasionally
get it
wrong - something that professional historians are well aware of. I have a
funny story of my learning that lesson, here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/nontech/tmlotus.html
in a totally different technical area.)
I have yet to see a _scan_ of contemporary documentation (I believe nothing
that isn't a contemporary _physical artifact_) that confirms it was actually
named "386BSD", but that does seem to be the name as given in the Dr. Dobbs
series on it. That series confirms that it was based directly on the 'Net/2'
BSD release (although 'diff's on the sources are probably the most reliable
proof).
Noel