Thanks Clem.
Most welcome
One minor clarification. Jordan and the patchkit work did predate NetBSD. However, the NetBSD project formed a little before the FreeBSD project that grew out of the patchkit days. Jordan didn't get that moving until NetBSD made rumblings...
Right - if I was not clear, on that ordering, mei culpa.
it was still a time that you heard a lot of what was going on by word of mouth, not so much by postings and email...
Exactly.
The OpenBSD split was years later... and a complicated mix of personality conflicts and technical differences.
A real shame IMO, but giving the personalities, I'm not sure it was not predestined,
But in many ways it was a smaller split since for a long time they were almost 100% compatible at the driver level
Very true, I run OpenBSD on my router/main server - I just want a minimum system, that I feel it safe.
I have NetBSD on a couple of boxes cause it runs and FreeBSD or Linux on others. And MacOS on my desktop.
I'm sort of, whatever gets the job done and I don't have to think too much about it, but it's probably why the little incompatibilities drive me nuts.