The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dan Plassche <boomer3200@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] BSD Net/2 Updates from CSRG
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:56:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM4k_MD+iswA9untm-CJQpL6JZErwx-fsi2hWvRo2gqtb7Lc1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Would anyone know how the CSRG made available updates to the public
distribution of Net/2 before releasing 4.4 BSD Lite?

Net/2 was released on tape in July 1991 as represented in the TUHS
archive.  The first mention I see of the sources appearing online is old
usenet posts announcing the bsd-sources mirror on uu.net starting in
January 1992.

However, the Net/2 derived versions of NetBSD (0.8-0.9) and FreeBSD
(1.0-1.1.5.1) imported userland tools revised after both dates in early
1993, when there are also mentions of using 4.4 code in the commit logs
(well before Lite 1 was released in March 1994).

At this point, I'm wondering if the latest code was issued on tape at the
time of a request for Net/2 sources and there were direct uploads from
the CSRG to any online mirrors before the USL lawsuit?


Thanks,

Dan Plassche

-- 
Dan Plassche

                 reply	other threads:[~2020-03-15 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAM4k_MD+iswA9untm-CJQpL6JZErwx-fsi2hWvRo2gqtb7Lc1A@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=boomer3200@gmail.com \
    --cc=tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).