From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>,
TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Unix and SW Releases (was V7 et al from Will)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 10:27:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_RBBbctnNAatdA29to0tVvMdXc0mcP54CVAWEKzqp3n0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACNPpebh35S6=pGjhxrQ3ee1UHzYZjbuBZUeUGBcTeEnRU+tEg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 11:42 PM Wesley Parish <wobblygong@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.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
It was dreary and wearisome. Cold clammy winter still held sway in this
forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark
greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed
up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers.
--LOTR, "The Passage of the Marshes"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-07 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 20:20 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2020-08-06 23:15 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-07 3:41 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Wesley Parish
2020-08-07 14:27 ` John Cowan [this message]
2020-08-07 20:17 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-07 15:37 ` Clem Cole
2020-08-07 20:23 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-07 21:07 ` Clem Cole
2020-08-07 2:49 ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2020-08-07 2:56 ` Steve Nickolas
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