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

Greg A. Woods woods at robohack.ca
Mon Jan 20 13:32:57 AEST 2020


At Sun, 19 Jan 2020 08:25:51 -0500, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question")
>
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:58:08PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, I was wrong.  That particular article was number 16 of the 18
> > part series, as shown at
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386BSD#Further_reading.  It does raise
> > the question why the Dr Dobb's search engine didn't find any of them.
>
> Out of curiosity, did the articles contain download information for a
> bootable copy of 386BSD?

Yes, they did:

     https://www.drdobbs.com/porting-unix-to-the-386-the-final-step/184408800

See also:

    http://gunkies.org/wiki/386BSD

Also keep in mind that NetBSD started as a set of "net" (as in usenet)
patch kits for 386BSD.

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