1 Sep
2024
1 Sep
'24
12:49 a.m.
On 8/31/24 12:40 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
BSD/386 seems to be a first order derivative of net/2.
Source:
https://ia902809.us.archive.org/25/items/BSD3861.1CD/bsd1.1-manual.pdf.
To what degree that it incorporated anything from 386bsd would
probably rely on first hand accounts.
We ran all of these at CWRU for many years. The mail system, DNS, and
other services all ran on BSD/OS machines. Nice, clean distribution
will full source code and excellent support.
I don't have much to go on for BSD/OS 2.x but it
seems like it was
about rebasing on 4.4-lite if we look at the family tree
http://www.netbsd.org/about/history.html
This is about where we got seriously into the game. I probably still have
the source for it somewhere.
I did a bunch of development on that version.
Not much sourcing to go on for BSD/OS 3.x.
Probably have the source for this, too.
Luckily for BSD/OS 4.x we get some release notes:
*
https://ia600908.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/bsdos-4.…
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https://ia800900.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/21/items/bsdos-4.…
We definitely used these versions heavily, up through the mid-aughts.
For 5.x I again don't have much to go on
I think I have a box with this distribution in my office. That was
after I got out of the server game.
And what I was initially after, a comparative report on how BSD/OS
related to others:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix99/full_papers/metz/metz.pdf
(page 6)
I would be pretty confident in saying BSD/OS is _not_ a FreeBSD
derivative but a first order derivative of net/2 that eventually wound
up looking a little bit like FreeBSD in its later years.
Yep.
BSDI employed a bunch of BSD heavy hitters.
Mike Karels
Keith Bostic
Donn Seeley
Chris Torek
Rob Kolstad (President)
Jeff Honig
Bill Jolitz
Kirk McKusick (one of the founders)
They were a pleasure to work with.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/