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

[Michael Huff]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:23 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 3:21 PM Michael Huff <mphuff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>

Yes. I posted the first one because it included a scan of the packaging and
an insert (which I don't think you can find on the FreeBSD archive -though
I haven't looked), I posted a link to the second one because it pre-dates
the earliest ISO on the FreeBSD archive (2.0 instead of 2.0.5).

I thought people would be interested in the first link as an interesting
curiosity, and the second one was for any software completists.

-Michael
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