From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steve.mynott@gmail.com (Steve Mynott) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:02:54 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Last officially distributed and currently available BSD version In-Reply-To: References: <7f24ccf890ca8ac6fded183eaf95ef3f@bl.org> Message-ID: On 22 October 2017 at 16:31, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Michael Parson wrote: >> >> On 2017-10-22 00:38, Will Senn wrote: >> >> >> >>> Questions begging answers: >>> >>> What is the last bootable and installable media, officially >>> distributed by Berkeley? >> >> >> As I understood it, there were no bootable 4.4 BSD lite releases from >> Berkley. The 'lite' releases had the AT&T encumbered stuff removed and not >> replaced, it wasn't a complete and functional OS. > > > It had the 9 files that were trivial to replicate removed, yes. There seems to be some confusion about exactly what was removed to create 'lite'. http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2012-April/004227.html lists three files. and https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd appears to have copies of these three files (so they were probably not actually deleted from the original version control) https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/commit/e58c89522e6fbf136e9cdf55a393a6bdbdc4eb45#diff-771e2cfcd8808541adc96aa1fa1a0aae is interesting! I wonder how many systems actually ever displayed the "4.4 BSD UNIX" banner? At least one did at UCB.