Thor Lancelot Simon <tls(a)rek.tjls.com> wrote: See my previous posting. You'll get exactly this if you order Marshall Kirk McKusick's CSRG Archives CD-ROM set. The last CD-ROM is the image of CSRG's master /usr/src as it existed on the last second of CSRG's existence, one hour after the 4.4BSD-Lite2 tape was pressed. You mean binary distribution? Well, the machine the master /usr/src was stored on ran this system presumably, so I guess the binaries you want existed at some point. Whether they have been preserved anywhere is an entirely different matter. I suppose so. The best way to do it would probably be to bootstrap from the 4.4BSD tape and then recompile the system from the new source tree. I also have a very vague idea of what exactly can 4.4BSD-* run on. But definitely not VAX or Tahoe. There is no old VM in the 4.4BSD-* tree, and the kernel architecture has changed so much between 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD that back- porting it is not something I would volunteer to do. Yes. Yes. You know, if your interest is in resurrecting CSRG, my advice to you is not to bother with 4.4BSD-*, but to join Quasijarus Project instead. The break point in the history of CSRG was in late 1988. Everything after that is so far from True UNIX that I have decided to put a big X over it, turn the Universe clock back to that point (using my SCCS Time Machine), declare all of CSRG's post-1988 work "not really CSRG", and declare myself CSRG's true successor. If you look at my mail signature, you'll see that I'm the new official maintainer of Berkeley UNIX and the principal architect of its further development, known as Quasijarus Project. As far as I am concerned, 4.4BSD never existed except as a "side branch" from True UNIX, and the last True UNIX release from CSRG was 4.3BSD-Tahoe. I picked it up from that point and now I'm maintaining and developing it just as CSRG did until 1988. I am the true successor of true CSRG. If you want CSRG, here I am. BTW, it's not just that I suddenly declared myself to be the new CSRG. I earned this title, not just assumed it. Marshall Kirk McKusick himself (the previous maintainer of CSRG) acknowledges me as the new principal maintainer and architect. Oh, and he doesn't even object to my decision to undo all of his and others' 1988-1995 work with the SCCS Time Machine. He said himself in a private E-mail that he would love to see the golden old non-bloated system resurrected. I have used the term "True UNIX" several times in this message. Let me explain what I mean. While others may view the history of UNIX as a tree (you hear about UNIX history tree diagrams all the time), I view it as a straight line. The straight line of _mainstream_ True UNIX development looks like this: V6 (Bell) -> V7 (Bell) -> 32V (Bell) -> 3BSD (UCB) -> 4.0BSD (UCB) -> 4.1BSD (UCB) -> 4.2BSD (UCB) -> 4.3BSD (UCB) -> 4.3BSD-Tahoe (UCB) -> 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0 (Michael Sokolov) -> future Quasijarus releases (Michael Sokolov). For each release the responsible entity is indicated in parentheses. There are several things worth noting here. Notice how after V7 and 32V the torch of True UNIX development moves from Bell to UCB, never to return to Bell again. This is because everything Bell did after that (System V and such) deviates from the True UNIX ideology and loses the True UNIX torch. In late 1970s or early 1980s UCB picks up this torch and carries it until 1988. In 1988 UCB starts deviating from True UNIX too with the evil spirit of POSIX and everything, and loses the torch. The torch was laying on the ground from that point until the 27th of December 1998 when I picked it up with the 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0 release. Now I'm carrying it into the next millennium. Check out the Quasijarus Project WWW page referenced in my mail signature. Michael Sokolov TUHS 4BSD Coordinator 4.3BSD-* Maintainer Quasijarus Project Principal Architect & Developer Phone: 440-449-0299 or 216-217-2579 ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu TUHS WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/ Quasijarus WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/ Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA13519 for pups-liszt; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:17:20 +1100 (EST)