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To: remorse code <rone@ennui.org>
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Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD forever? 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> Let's not forget, though, that FreeBSD jumped versions from 2.2.2 to
> 2.2.5. :)

Because we used the numbers for different things back then.  In the
earlier days, the revision number was used as a "timeline indicator"
where each branch would start at .0 and move to .9 (whether any
releases occurred or not) over the course of its one-year lifetime.

One of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" sorts of things.

- Jordan


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