Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:13:36 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Last farewell to 386BSD Message-ID: <199610170613.QAA27614@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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We have just upgraded our last 386BSD 0.1.24 machine to FreeBSD. It has been plodding along, monitoring machine status, for some years now. It pulled one too many death-by-out-of-swap stunts, and so I applied the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD. For the nostalgic BSD history types, I note that 386BSD 0.1 dates from July 1992, and that few of the folks in CONTRIB.LIST are known to me, though one is Linus, and 4 of them ended up in the FreeBSD core team. The final (0.1.24) patchkit seems to be from July 1993. Oh! such hazy memories of times when just installing the thing put hair on your chest. /386bsd (the kernel) is from January 1994, so we've been fixing problems using just the reset button for, say, 31 months. Hmm. Slack? Not us! Is there any point to me telling you all this stuff? Well, I want to know if there is any life left in 386BSD. Dr Dobbs keeps advertising the "386BSD Reference CD". Is it good for anything? What do Messrs Jolitz do now? Whatever happened to Jesus Monroy, Jr? Did anybody get any "fairings"? We have to know! Stephen.
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