From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:37:44 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] 4.0 BSD confusion....
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>> : hp(0,0)vmunix
>> 87844+15464+130300 start 0x530
>> VM/UNIX (Berkeley Version 4.1) 11/10/80
>> 
>> But the wiki page lists 4.1 being from June of 1981, and 4.0 being from
>> November of 1980..  Did 4.0 BSD ship reporting itself as 4.1?  I guess there
>> is the possibility that the kernel may include patches to bring it up to
>> 4.1?
> 

I did a bit of digging in the SCCS files on disk 4 of the CD-ROM set.  That '4.1' version string was hardwired into vax/vax/machdep.c on November 10, 1980, as delta 4.1.  The logs for Locore.c show a commit on November 9, also with delta 4.1, with the comment 'version 4.1 for distrib'.