18 Jan
2020
18 Jan
'20
9:25 p.m.
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.