From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tih@hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 18:48:06 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] A repository with 44 years of Unix evolution gets the MSR '15 Best Data Showcase Award In-Reply-To: (Warner Losh's message of "Tue, 19 May 2015 09:55:12 -0600") References: <555A4699.5060107@aueb.gr> Message-ID: Warner Losh writes: >> Getting early NetBSD in there would help complete the continuity, seeing >> as NetBSD was a fork of 386BSD, and FreeBSD a later fork of NetBSD. > > FreeBSD was never a fork of NetBSD. OpenBSD was a later fork of NetBSD. > FreeBSD and NetBSD both forked from the patch kits that were produced for > the 386BSD project. I stand corrected! Looking at Éric Lévénez' time line of Unix, I see that you're right. In my own recollection, the FreeBSD split, which happened a few months after Chris Demetriou and others started NetBSD, was out of NetBSD -- but it seems it was, after all, a parallel fork from Bill Jolitz' code base. (The whole thing triggered because he didn't adopt the patch kits, and the NetBSD/FreeBSD separation taking place because of differences of opinion on multi-architecture support.) And, while it's a subject: the split was on very friendly terms. :) -tih -- Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity. --Niles Crane, "Frasier"