22 Oct
2017
22 Oct
'17
6:02 p.m.
On 22 October 2017 at 16:31, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Michael Parson <mparson(a)bl.org> wrote:
There seems to be some confusion about exactly what was removed to
create 'lite'.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2012-April/004227.html lists three files.
and
https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd
appears to have copies of these three files (so they were probably not
actually deleted from the original version control)
https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/commit/e58c89522e6fbf136e9cdf55a393a6…
is interesting!
I wonder how many systems actually ever displayed the "4.4 BSD UNIX"
banner? At least one did at UCB.
On 2017-10-22 00:38, Will Senn wrote:
<snip>
It had the 9 files that were trivial to replicate removed, yes. Questions begging answers:
What is the last bootable and installable media, officially
distributed by Berkeley?
As I understood it, there were no bootable 4.4 BSD lite releases from
Berkley. The 'lite' releases had the AT&T encumbered stuff removed and
not
replaced, it wasn't a complete and functional OS.