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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:08:22 +0000 (UTC) FreeBSD 1.x was based on 4.3BSD - there never was a 4.4BSD other than 4.4BSD Lite and then later 4.4BSD Lite 2...
On Fri, 16 Jun 06 10:03:33 GMT
long ago as a student programmer, i had a summer job to port 1401 MPIO program to 360-30. basically MPIO acted as front...
Yes they were - I first downloaded and installed FreeBSD and NetBSD towards the end of 1993. The downloads were from publicly visible ftp servers and there were many mirrors. They were as easily available as Linux (well almost - the first copy of Linux I had was sold on about 50 floppies, I recall deciding that even if it was cruft the floppies were a good deal).
No you didn't, the BSD code was freely available to download by the early 1990s and the ports to 386 based PCs were around in 1993. Perhaps someone else here knows when the BSD sources were first made freely available to download, but it can't have been long after there was enough internet bandwidth to make it a sane thing to attempt.
I was looking through my copy of Jean Sammet's famed book on programming languages, my interest sparked by coming across...
The copyright battle did not prevent the BSDs from being distributed before it was settled - 386BSD, the patchkits, FreeBSD 1.x, copyright argument was settled and they were all openly distributed and easily obtained. When the argument was settled there was a brief pause while the designated code was removed (or in the case of FreeBSD the project was restarted from the 4.4 BSD codebase which was agreed to be clean).
Note that these were plugged up in 1994 and the first BSD distributions free of any consideration of copyright hbuttle were made in May 1994.
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