On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > And, while it's a subject: the split was on very friendly terms. :) ​Yes, they had different goals. Jordan wanted to create a 386/PC friendly install - be a low/no cost answer to MSFT when the target was Intel HW that could be bought anywhere - i.e. HW purchased from "computer shopper". [The port to other HW like Alpha would not come until much later] NetBSD wanted to take the CRSG token make a solid system for research that ran everywhere - i.e. lots of different target HW - 68K many different vendors, Vax, Power, sparc, much less x86. In fact, they would take back from FreeBSD a lot of the 386 work eventually. The NetBSD/OpenBSD fork would happen much later in time and that was based on personalities and group management [that one was sad, but knowing both group of people, understandable]. BTW: Linux would eventually take much of the install work that FreeBSD originally developed - particularly in set up/install provisioning.​ At the time, the Linux installs were pretty weak. I know in my own case, many of us were worried that the AT&T/BSDi/UCB case was going to make a "freely available" UNIX unable to happen. Little did we know that if AT&T had won, Linux (and all of the "clones") would have been in violation of the AT&T IP - the trade secrets - and they would have had to be removed from the market also. I've often wondered what would have really happened if that had occurred. Instead, of course, a lot of hackers (myself included) quickly downloaded Linux and started hacking and moving linux from toy to something real. That said, I run the MacOS Unix flavor on my desk (and my wife, and each child), FreeBSD & OpenBSD on my servers at home, but progam Linux for my job these days. Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: