From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik@ono-sendai.com (Erik Berls) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:21:15 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy 25th Birthday NetBSD! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 17:30 Andy Kosela wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > >> Revision 1.1, Sun Mar 21 09:45:37 1993 UTC (25 years ago) by cgd >> >> >> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/init/init.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN >> >> Today is commonly considered the birthday of NetBSD. >> >> Theo told me (seven years ago) that he, cgd, and glass (and one other >> person) planned it within 30 minutes after discussing with the CSRG and >> BSDI guys in the hot tub at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego at >> the January 25-29 1993 USENIX conference. (Does anyone have more to >> share about this discussion?) Soon, cgd had setup a CVS repository >> (forked 386BSD with many patchkits) which was re-rolled a few times (due >> to corrupted CVS). (So maybe March 21 is later than the real birthday.) >> >> As far as I know, it is the oldest continuously-maintained complete >> open source operating system. (It predates Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, >> and Debian Linux by some months.) >> >> > Speaking about NetBSD anyone know what Chris Demetriou is doing these > days? He has not been very active in the community for the last 20 years > or so. Last I heard he was working for Broadcom, but that was 18 years > ago... > Last I talked to him a few years back he was a Eng Director at Google. LinkedIn still shows him there. > --Andy > -- -=erik. -- Look, I lived through the Gray Davis years. I *need* a UPS. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: