18 Jan
2020
18 Jan
'20
9:35 p.m.
I would imagine that the user land changes made its way into 386 Mach. Although I
haven't seen anything I can recall off the top of my head about 386 commits in user
land until much later.
Maybe one day more of that Mt Xinu stuff will surface, although I'm still amazed I
got the kernel to build.
Internet legend is that the rift was massive.
From: TUHS <tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org> on behalf of Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2020, 12:26 a.m.
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Cc: UNIX Heritage Society
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic
question")
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 03:19:13PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Friday, 17 January 2020 at 22:50:51 -0500, Theodore
Y. Ts'o wrote:
Wikipedia says he was working on 386BSD as early has 1989 and that
clicks with me (Jolitz worked for me around 1992 or 3). I don't
remember him mentioning working at BSDI, are you sure about that
part? Those guys did not like each other at all.
In the super-early days (late 1991, early 1992), those of us who
worked on it just wanted a "something Unix-like" that we could run at
home (my first computer was a 40 MHz 386 with 16 MB of memory). This
was before the AT&T/BSD Lawsuit (which was in 1992) and while Jolitz
may have been demonstrating 386BSD in private, I was certainly never
aware of it
At the start of this time, Bill was working for BSDI, who were
preparing a commercial product that (in March 1992) became BSD/386.