22 Mar
2018
22 Mar
'18
7:21 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 17:30 Andy Kosela <akosela(a)andykosela.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Jeremy C. Reed <reed(a)reedmedia.net> wrote:
Last I talked to him a few years back he was a Eng Director at Google.
LinkedIn still shows him there.
Revision 1.1, Sun Mar 21 09:45:37 1993 UTC (25
years ago) by cgd
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/init/init.c?rev=1.1&conten…
Today is commonly considered the birthday of NetBSD.
Theo told me (seven years ago) that he, cgd, and glass (and one other
person) planned it within 30 minutes after discussing with the CSRG and
BSDI guys in the hot tub at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego at
the January 25-29 1993 USENIX conference. (Does anyone have more to
share about this discussion?) Soon, cgd had setup a CVS repository
(forked 386BSD with many patchkits) which was re-rolled a few times (due
to corrupted CVS). (So maybe March 21 is later than the real birthday.)
As far as I know, it is the oldest continuously-maintained complete
open source operating system. (It predates Slackware Linux, FreeBSD,
and Debian Linux by some months.)
Speaking about NetBSD anyone know what Chris Demetriou is doing these
days? He has not been very active in the community for the last 20 years
or so. Last I heard he was working for Broadcom, but that was 18 years
ago...
--Andy
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Look, I lived through the Gray Davis years. I *need* a UPS.