[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Wesley Parish]

Certainly, that was the impression I got from reading the 386BSD 
text/help files that came with the 386BSD CDROM Dr Dobbs were selling. 
The 386BSD was Net/2 ported to the 386.

Wesley Parish

On 1/09/24 01:07, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>      > From: Noel Chiappa
>
>      > Was there ever actually a '386/BSD'?
>
> I decided (for not particular reason) to take a quick read through Marshall
> Kirk McKusick's "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix From AT&T-Owned to Freely
> Redistributable":
>
>    https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
>
> 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).
>
> 	Noel