[TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question")

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Jan 19 01:25:45 AEST 2020


On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 03:19:13PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 17 January 2020 at 22:50:51 -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> >
> > In the super-early days (late 1991, early 1992), those of us who
> > worked on it just wanted a "something Unix-like" that we could run at
> > home (my first computer was a 40 MHz 386 with 16 MB of memory).  This
> > was before the AT&T/BSD Lawsuit (which was in 1992) and while Jolitz
> > may have been demonstrating 386BSD in private, I was certainly never
> > aware of it
> 
> At the start of this time, Bill was working for BSDI, who were
> preparing a commercial product that (in March 1992) became BSD/386.

Wikipedia says he was working on 386BSD as early has 1989 and that
clicks with me (Jolitz worked for me around 1992 or 3).  I don't
remember him mentioning working at BSDI, are you sure about that
part?  Those guys did not like each other at all.


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