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* [TUHS] 386BSD released
@ 2021-07-13 22:28 Dave Horsfall
  2021-07-14  7:54 ` Michael Kjörling
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2021-07-13 22:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

In 1992, 386BSD is released by Lynne and William Jolitz, starting the open 
source operating system movement (Linux didn't come along under later).

-- Dave

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* Re: [TUHS] 386BSD released
@ 2021-07-15  2:21 Douglas McIlroy
  2021-07-15  2:41 ` Adam Thornton
  2021-07-15 15:07 ` Clem Cole
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From: Douglas McIlroy @ 2021-07-15  2:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS main list

> Arguably ancient PDP-10 operating systems like ITS, WAITS, TENEX were
> somewhat "open" and "free", but it's not a clear cut case.

The open source movement was a revival of the old days of SHARE and other
user groups.

SAP, the SHARE assembly program for the IBM 704, was freely available--with
source code--to all members of the SHARE user group. I am not aware of any
restrictions on redistribution.

Other more specialized programs were also freely available through SHARE. In
particular, Fortran formatted IO was adopted directly from a SHARE program
written by Roy Nutt (who also wrote SAP and helped write Fortran I).

Bell Labs freely distributed the BESYS operating system for the IBM 704.
At the time (1958) no operating system was available from IBM.

IBM provided source code for the Fortran II compiler. In the
fashion of the time, I spent a memorable all-night session with
that code at hand, finding and fixing a bizarre bug (a computed GOTO
bombed if the number of branches was 74 mod 75) with a bizarre cause
(the code changed the index-register field in certain instructions on the
fly--inconsistently). And there was no operating system to help, because
BESYS swapped itself out to make room for the compiler.

Doug

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* Re: [TUHS] 386BSD released
@ 2021-07-16 17:30 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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From: Nelson H. F. Beebe @ 2021-07-16 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list

List members under this subject line have contributed reminders of
older efforts in the sharing of software, predating Linux, the Free
Software Foundation, the GNU Project, and the BSD Unix family.

Starting at the string "begin historical remarks" in the preamble
comments of

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib
	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.html

I record things that I've encountered over decades in computing, going
back to Charles Babbage in 1830 and Joseph Henry in 1849, jumping to
IBM SHARE in 1955, and onward.

As usual in our bibliography archives, *.html files look similar on
screen to *.bib files, but have live hyperlinks.

Comments, corrections, improvements, etc. on that history are welcome.

Babbage's own works are covered at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/b/babbage-charles.bib
	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/b/babbage-charles.html

and those of his collaborator at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/l/lovelace-ada-augusta.bib
	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/l/lovelace-ada-augusta.html

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2021-07-13 22:28 [TUHS] 386BSD released Dave Horsfall
2021-07-14  7:54 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-14  8:19   ` Angus Robinson
2021-07-14  8:32     ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-14  9:07       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-07-14 14:09         ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-14 14:54           ` Warner Losh
2021-07-14 15:06             ` Richard Salz
2021-07-14 15:37             ` Steve Nickolas
2021-07-14 10:09       ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-07-14 10:39         ` arnold
2021-07-14 17:21         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-07-14 17:32           ` Richard Salz
2021-07-14 15:01     ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 17:40       ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-14 17:50         ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-14 18:28         ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 11:49   ` [TUHS] " Andy Kosela
2021-07-14 15:48     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16  1:35   ` Dave Horsfall
2021-07-16  2:33     ` risner
2021-07-16  4:25       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16  5:51         ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-16 13:00           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 13:56             ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-16 14:40               ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 15:44                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 16:11               ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-16 19:07               ` Kevin Bowling
2021-07-16 20:17                 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 20:24                   ` Richard Salz
2021-07-18 13:13                     ` arnold
2021-07-18 13:23                       ` Richard Salz
2021-07-18 13:43                       ` [TUHS] MtXinu calendar (was Re: 386BSD released) Al Kossow
2021-07-18 13:51                         ` Al Kossow
2021-07-18 16:44                         ` Al Kossow
2021-07-18 17:38                           ` John Cowan
2021-07-18 18:35                           ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-19  3:06                             ` Dan Stromberg
2021-07-18 19:00                           ` arnold
2021-07-18 21:48                             ` Deborah Scherrer
2021-07-18 20:06                           ` Lyle Bickley
2021-07-14 21:37 ` [TUHS] 386BSD released Bakul Shah
2021-07-16 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-07-15  2:21 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-15  2:41 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-15 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 17:30 Nelson H. F. Beebe

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