5 Sep
2023
5 Sep
'23
7:07 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
I don't remember any special many-programs-in-one
binary
like busybox in any Unix from the days when Unix was simple
enough for me to understand. That covers the entire lifetime
of the Research systems, but also System V and the BSDs and
their sundry offspring up into at least the 1990s.
I'm pretty sure OpenBSD at least still has nothing like
busybox. The nearest thing was to make sure certain programs
look at ls -i output on the install media/bsd.rd
https://man.openbsd.org/crunchgen.8
Added to FreeBSD and NetBSD in 1994.