[COFF] [TUHS] Unix and SW Releases (was V7 et al from Will)

[cowan at ccil.org (John Cowan)]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 11:42 PM Wesley Parish <wobblygong at gmail.com> wrote:


> Am I right in assuming that 2.xBSD was the state of the play on PDP
> while 4.xBSD was the source tree compatible state of play on the
> VAXes? That if you had a VAX you got the 4.xBSD tapes, whereas if you
> had a PDP you got the 2.xBSD tapes?
>

Broadly yes.  2BSD was for the PDP-11, and while it could probably have
been ported to another 16-bit box, I don't think that was ever done by
anyone.  The VAX was the target machine for 3BSD to 4.3BSD.  4.3-Tahoe ran
on the Vax and the Power 6/32, though the latter platform died fairly soon
(but it was worth it because that release separated out portable and
non-portable stuff), and 4.3-Reno on at least HP machines.  Then came the
Great Legal Mess followed by the BSD Explosion.



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