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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:06:42 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is VT_TFS?
Message-ID:  <15253.6194.432852.114923@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B946708.ECB7307B@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0108311559170.16476-100000@opal> <3B946708.ECB7307B@mindspring.com>

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> > What is the file system that uses VT_TFS in vnode.h? Is it still available
> > on FreeBSD?  Thanks.
> 
> Julian added it for TRW Financial Services; the first public
> reference machine for 386BSD (which later became FreeBSD and
> NetBSD) was ref.tfs.com.

So far so good.  ref died an ugly horrible death, although I think I
still have lying around a 4mm backup tape of what was left of it.

> TRW supported a lot of the early
> 386BSD/FreeBSD effort, back before Walnut Creek CDROM threw
> in and had us change the version number from 0.1 to 1.0 to
> make it a bit easier to sell.

*Huh*  That's revisionist history if I've ever heard it.  We did a 1.0
release for FreeBSD because we wanted to differentiate ourselves from
386BSD (lot of bad blood there with the Jolitz's) and NetBSD (which had
a 0.8 release at that time).




Nate

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