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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:01:05 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [BSD history]
Message-ID:  <20001221130105.A53393@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012210207.UAA68076@freeside.fc.net>; from jdunham@fc.net on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:07:42PM -0600
References:  <20001221115427.A52062@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200012210207.UAA68076@freeside.fc.net>

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On Wednesday, 20 December 2000 at 20:07:42 -0600, Jerry Dunham wrote:
> Greg Lehey babbled:
>> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:54:27 +1030
>> On Wednesday, 20 December 2000 at  3:34:39 -0600, Tyler K McGeorge wrote:
>>
>>> After 4.4BSD, UCB was forced to become BSDI, which is now a major
>>> non-free Unix.
>>
>> This is not correct.  BSDI was formed in 1981 by some ex-CSRG people.
>> CSRG closed down in 1994, I think.  BSDI make BSD/OS.
>
> O'Really?  I didn't know BSDI was that old.  For some reason I thought it
> sprang up around 1991, not 1981.  And I thought I was beginning to get a
> feel for BSD history.  Silly me.

Oops.  Typo, of course.

Greg
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