Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:50:43 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Anniversary Message-ID: <199703250450.UAA01048@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:36:37 CST." <Pine.HPP.3.96.970324212529.20824A-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>
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>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? It was...challenging. Bill once commented to me "Anyone who was actually able to successfully install 0.0 deserves a prize". It's been so long that I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall that you had to do everything by hand with the distribution being a bunch of floppies that were all cat'd together...and the supported hardware configuration was basically: pccons, floppy, and wd controller. If you weren't a computer expert (especially with low level details), you didn't have a snowball's chance. I installed it (if you can call what had to be done as an "installation") on a 386SX-25 with 4MBs of RAM. ...oh what fun THAT was. :-) -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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