[TUHS] Re: Vax-780 with unix 2.0v2 gdts questions

[Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:45 PM Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:23 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 18:56, Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I think I may have found 2.0 on the Internet Archive too.
>>> https://archive.org/details/cdrom-freebsd-2.0-1
>>>
>>> The dates on the iso are from late November 1994.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:14 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 3:21 PM Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 5:46 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where did you get this distribution?  The one I could easily find,
>>>>>> https://archive.org/details/vax-svr2 , has serious filesystem
>>>>>> problems that can easily be seen by running an fsck on boot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking of Unix History, following that link led me to a copy of what
>>>>> I think was the first 4.4BSD-Lite based FreeBSD iso -it's from June 1995.
>>>>> No big deal *except* that it includes a scan of the cover, something that
>>>>> looks like an insert and it consists of two cds. I haven't had a chance to
>>>>> look at the cds yet so I don't know what's on them.
>>>>>
>>>>> IMO the scans are the big deal and why I'm posting the link to it
>>>>> here. Apologies in advance for any lapses in etiquette:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://archive.org/details/freebsd-205-b
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD 2.0.0 was the first Lite based release. This looks to be 2.0.5
>>>> which was a 7 months later.
>>>>
>>>> https://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases has
>>>> all the old releases from 2.0.5 on...
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm I think I have the 2.0 cdrom in my basement...
>>>>
>>>> Warner
>>>>
>>>
>> These are just the regular Walnut Creek (
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM ) packaged
>> distributions of free software.  Is there a reason that they are considered
>> special or significant?
>>
>> -Henry
>>
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> Yes. I posted the first one because it included a scan of the packaging
> and an insert (which I don't think you can find on the FreeBSD archive
> -though I haven't looked), I posted a link to the second one because it
> pre-dates the earliest ISO on the FreeBSD archive (2.0 instead of 2.0.5).
>
> I thought people would be interested in the first link as an interesting
> curiosity, and the second one was for any software completists.
>
> -Michael
>

I just realized that I may not have exactly answered your question, because
I was assuming that you caught the mention of "Lite" in the thread. My
apologies for that assumption.

"Lite" refers to 4.4BSD-Lite, the 2nd to the last release of BSD from the
CSRG (Lite2 would be the last). FreeBSD versions 1.x are (in my opinion)
relevant to TUHS because of their links to 386BSD and Net/2, FreeBSD
2.0(.5) were the first releases to incorporate the code from 4.4BSD as well
as being the first to be declared "legal" -ie free of AT&T code.

Hopefully these links give additional context to what may have appeared to
be random postings of software archives. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.4BSD_and_descendants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_version_history#FreeBSD_2

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