Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:47:57 +0930 (CST) From: grog@FreeBSD.ORG To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Another BSD anniversary Message-ID: <199707292317.IAA04370@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19970729230402.HT63113@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jul 29, 97 11:04:02 pm"
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J Wunsch writes: > As Michael Smith wrote: > >> As one of the many who were hapless slaves of another operating >> system, or at best amazed onlookers at the time, may I suggest that on >> this anniversary those of you who _were_ involved (and you know who >> you are) hoist a receptacle of your favorite beverage in thanks to >> yourselves and your fellows. > > Ok, i just filled a glass of wine... My 386BSD 0.1 installation > floppies are still around on a shelf. I've talked with Hellmuth > Michaelis last weekend, he's still got his 0.0 setup somewhere (i > deleted my floppies to gain space for 0.1 -- blech!). I know David > Greenman still owns a set of 0.0 floppies. > > Still by its time, the system (0.0) amazed me with its instability. :) > I've been working with Interactive Unix before on the same machine, > and BSD looked a lot more promising as an experimental platform. You should qualify the term "BSD" in that sentence. I wasn't using 386BSD at the time: I was using BSD/386 version 0.3.1. You can read about my experience with that OS in the August 1992 edition of iX. Basically, I was also using Inactive UNIX, and I was amazed how much *better* BSD/386 was than Inactive. Of course, things have changed. I still have a subscription to BSD/OS (same OS--for those who don't know, they changed the name at some point), and recently version 3.0 arrived. I haven't installed it--I'm running FreeBSD on my systems. I still think that BSD/OS is more stable, but the difference is diminishing, and it's lagging severely with the features. Greg
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