[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> and he refers to Jolitz's system as "386/BSD" (apparently incorrectly). (So
> there's a lesson there; even people who '_were_ there' can occasionally get it
> wrong - something that professional historians are well aware of. I have a
> funny story of my learning that lesson, here:
> 
>   http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/nontech/tmlotus.html
> 
> in a totally different technical area.)
> 
> I have yet to see a _scan_ of contemporary documentation (I believe nothing
> that isn't a contemporary _physical artifact_) that confirms it was actually
> named "386BSD", but that does seem to be the name as given in the Dr. Dobbs
> series on it. That series confirms that it was based directly on the 'Net/2'
> BSD release (although 'diff's on the sources are probably the most reliable
> proof).

Is this "apparently incorrectly" about the / slash? As for use 
(regardless of artifact) with / I only see in McKusick's histories and 
one use in the old 386bsd.faq (which uses without slash in all but 
once),

Another mistake was use of "386/BSD" for BSDI's software in the Civil 
Action No.92-1667 AMICUS BRIEF (930107.amicus.txt) where all the other 
legal references were "BSD/386".

Or is this about the 386BSD name itself (without the slash)?

An early mention of it is from 

src/sys/i386/i386/locore.s from net.2

 *      @(#)locore.s    7.3 (Berkeley) 5/13/91
 */


/*
 * locore.s:    4BSD machine support for the Intel 386
 *              Preliminary version
 *              Written by William F. Jolitz, 386BSD Project

and gdb/config/m-i386bsd.h change from him

but I don't know of a physical artifact around then other than the CD 
that came with the magazine.

Does anyone have the CD or print magazines? (Sadly I lost or threw mine 
away in the 1990s. I got the subscription as a Christmas present and 
didn't realize that "BSD" value until near a decade later.)

Someday I need to finish my book where I did over 80 email, phone, or 
in-person interviews.

t1:svn-bsd-history$ wc 386bsd* patchkit.tex lawsuit.tex bsdi* 43bsd-part2.tex  
      87     471    3319 386bsd-part3.tex
     530    3264   23198 386bsd.tex
    1258    7793   52650 patchkit.tex
    3155   21517  137284 lawsuit.tex
     929    5177   36451 bsdi-part2.tex
     499    3477   22738 bsdi.tex
    3879   28436  180396 43bsd-part2.tex
   10337   70135  456036 total

(which is less than a quarter of the story)