"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

> At 2025-12-29T22:59:11-0800, Collin Funk wrote:
>> It actually existed before 4.4BSD. It existed in 2.11BSD at least [1].

> 2BSD however was not abandoned as soon as 3BSD or even 4BSD showed up.
> Some people still had PDP-11s around.  And thanks to (Open)SIMH, we can
> all still run one if we choose.
>
> Features from 3,4BSD got backported to 2BSD, which eventually stabilized
> its minor version number at "11", I suspect because that was
> irresibility useful to characterize the system's only supported target
> architecture.

Oh, right. The source I linked has a 1995 date on it that I missed. I
would have realized the mistake if I had, since 4.4BSD is from 1992 or
1993.

Collin