26 Apr
2010
26 Apr
'10
8:07 a.m.
[resequenced]
On Monday, 26 April 2010 at 19:03:33 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
That was my first intention too. But read the copyright. You're not
allowed to do distribute that.
On Saturday, 24 April 2010 at 16:28:41 +0200,
Jacob Goense wrote:
Yes, I have a copy. It was pretty much useless. All the
documentation was in some Microsoft format, and I couldn't read it.
Unfortunately Dr Dobbs has a copyright on it, or I could upload it for
the curious.
FWLIW, I also bought a copy, way back when, and I've just made an
unencumbered version, containing only the 386BSD binaries, the
386BSD source trees, and the manuals. I
don't know if this is interesting to anyone, but I thought I'd share
that 386BSD will install on Bochs (although slowly, and it's prone to
crashing), however once the first patchkit is installed, it'll then run
on Qemu! (0.11.0, it seems the new bios layout of 0.12 is incompatible)
Yes, I think it is very interesting to see what BSD was like on an x86
around the time of the forks into Net- and FreeBSD. You can feel the
itch to roll your own xBSD when messing around with it.
It got me curious about where 386BSD ended though. Did anyone save
the 386BSD Reference CD-ROM Release 1.0 from /dev/null? It contains only the BSD-copyright material;
everything else appears
to be Dr Dobbs-copyrighted, thus off-limits; but I'll upload the
tar.bz2 file (2MB) if people feel it's needed.
Did you find a Dr Dobbs copyright notice anywhere on the CD? Or
elsewhere? All I saw was a printed mention of Dr Dobbs along with the
Jolitzes and UCB around the bottom of the CD.
Greg
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