From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: seth.i.mcdonald@gmail.com, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is 2.11BSD < 4BSD? It depends.
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:35:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pl7wxvz8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251230072231.cbsmcowvonavhd4c@illithid>
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"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
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-30 6:41 [PATCH v1 0/4] Miscellaneous fixes seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30 6:42 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] man/man2/syscall.2: Add HISTORY section seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30 6:42 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] sys/man2/sysctl.2: HISTORY: wfix seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30 6:59 ` Collin Funk
2025-12-30 7:18 ` Seth McDonald
2025-12-30 7:27 ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-12-30 7:40 ` Collin Funk
2025-12-30 7:53 ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-12-30 11:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-30 7:22 ` Is 2.11BSD < 4BSD? It depends. (was: [PATCH v1 2/4] sys/man2/sysctl.2: HISTORY: wfix) G. Branden Robinson
2025-12-30 7:35 ` Collin Funk [this message]
2025-12-30 6:42 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] man/man2/utime.2: SYNOPSIS: ffix seth.i.mcdonald
2025-12-30 6:42 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] man/man2const/F_GETSIG.2const: HISTORY: tfix seth.i.mcdonald
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