[TUHS] BSD/OS

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Sep 1 05:31:19 AEST 2024


On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 02:56:10PM -0400, Chet Ramey via TUHS wrote:
> On 8/31/24 10:13 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> >Yes. They started with net/2. Other accounts have Bill Jolitz bringing some
> >preliminary 386 porting work to BSDi and then leaving in a huff over
> >charging for it.
> 
> Yep. I remember the BSD BOF at one Usenix (1992 maybe?) where Bill got up
> from his seat and started yelling at Kirk/Mike/Keith, asking how they could
> live with themselves. Good times.

I actually hired Bill because I knew about that drama and he really got the
short end of the stick.  Unfairly, in my opinion.  It's sad.  So I gave
him a job for a while.

--lm


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