[TUHS] Vax-780 with unix 2.0v2 gdts questions

[Henry Bent]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 18:56, Michael Huff <mphuff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I may have found 2.0 on the Internet Archive too.
> https://archive.org/details/cdrom-freebsd-2.0-1
>
> The dates on the iso are from late November 1994.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:14 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 3:21 PM Michael Huff <mphuff at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 5:46 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Where did you get this distribution?  The one I could easily find,
>>>> https://archive.org/details/vax-svr2 , has serious filesystem problems
>>>> that can easily be seen by running an fsck on boot.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Speaking of Unix History, following that link led me to a copy of what I
>>> think was the first 4.4BSD-Lite based FreeBSD iso -it's from June 1995. No
>>> big deal *except* that it includes a scan of the cover, something that
>>> looks like an insert and it consists of two cds. I haven't had a chance to
>>> look at the cds yet so I don't know what's on them.
>>>
>>> IMO the scans are the big deal and why I'm posting the link to it here.
>>> Apologies in advance for any lapses in etiquette:
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/freebsd-205-b
>>>
>>
>> FreeBSD 2.0.0 was the first Lite based release. This looks to be 2.0.5
>> which was a 7 months later.
>>
>> https://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases has all
>> the old releases from 2.0.5 on...
>>
>> Hmmm I think I have the 2.0 cdrom in my basement...
>>
>> Warner
>>
>
These are just the regular Walnut Creek (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM ) packaged distributions
of free software.  Is there a reason that they are considered special or
significant?

-Henry
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