Date: 27 Mar 1997 10:25:07 +0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originat.demon.co.uk> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Anniversary Message-ID: <87d8sl7hto.fsf@originat.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:35:31 %2B0100 References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970324212529.20824A-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> <19970325233531.XE42511@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > As Guy Helmer wrote: > > > It's been five years this month since FreeBSD's ancestor, 386BSD 0.0, hit > > the streets. Anyone remember how much fun it was to install? > > Yeah. I had to buy another disk (since it occupied an entire disk > only, and i wasn't ready for getting rid of DOS by that time :), and > to ``borrow'' a coprocessor from my employer that happened to sit > around idling there. ;-) Later on, i've got very used to the idea of I remember the huge stack of floppies it required! In those days UK universities weren't very well connected to the internet and I had to download the whole lot to a VAX box and then transfer it across the campus lan to a pc and then copy it all onto floppies. It was a fun time though. The ancestor of the if_lnc driver made its first appearance for 386BSD 0.0 because my pc had very little disk space and the first thing I wanted to do was NFS mount some spare space from my Sun. Writing an ethernet driver for a barely runnable kernel was serious fun :-) -- Dr Paul Richards, Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@originat.demon.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (UK Mobile)
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