Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:45:45 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer), chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: historical note.. Message-ID: <199603120045.SAA15980@chrome.jdl.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:43:04 PST." <199603112243.OAA25606@freefall.freebsd.org>
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So, like "Jonathan M. Bresler" was saying to me just the other day: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > I just found this in the BSD4.3 kernel I'm trying to debug.. > > it's from vmparam.h.. > > HEY! somebody took this out fo the FreeBSD sources! not fair. > this is part of our heritage. so it make the source distribution > a little larger. so what disk is cheaper than ever. > > i want it back. please submit a diff. ;^) > > jmb > > ps. for those dealing with too much stress, and unable to tell > this is my attempt at humor. I was curious too. So I fired off a piece of mail to our eternally good buddy Keith. With all due respect, I forward his private mail to me. He says: To: jdl@jdl.com From: Keith Bostic Subject: Re: Historical note... Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:58:45 EST ---------------------------------------------------------------- > [ You don't just happen to know who wrote this, do you? :-) > But, to be a '81 era comment, it's gotta be more like 4.1, > (or 2.9?) or earlier, right? -- jdl ] Bill Joy checked in the SCCS delta, presumably he wrote the text. And, yes, this comment disappeared before the 4.2 release, so it's not a 4.3BSD kernel. --keith Oh wow! jdl
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