Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 11:38:33 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: remorse code <rone@ennui.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD forever? Message-ID: <29010.947360313@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 2000 11:11:29 PST." <200001081911.LAA14189@shell13.ba.best.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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