21 Mar
2023
21 Mar
'23
4:39 p.m.
Hello,
30 years ago today on March 21st, 1993 at around
09:45:37 UTC, NetBSD was born!
I believe this makes NetBSD the oldest,
still-maintained and actively developed, free and open
source descendant of the Berkeley Software
Distribution (BSD), a true genetic Unix (albeit not
small-caps UNIX nor UNIX(tm)).
If you want to see what the source tree looked like
back then:
cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co -D "1993-03-21 09:45:37 GMT" src
Or browse the tree at that time:
https://www.netbsd.org/~jschauma/src-1993-03-21/
Unlike me, many on this list were around at the time
and place. Would love to hear some origin stories...
-Jan