What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2056
Eric Chomko
BSD wasn't free until the x86 days... 386BSD was the first really free version you could boot. It was somewhere around July 1992 IIRC.
Bill Pechter (pechter-at-gmail-dot-com) Open enough to spawn a whole clone market that would actually kill it?! No, as great as the PDP series was...
Before that the Net2 and BSD4.4 releases required an AT&T (oh well -- a Western Electric Company) Unix license for at least V7...
The reason was the Net2 release had some AT&T code in it. Until 4.4 lite -- all the BSD's had some encumbered code.
FreeBSD had it until the 2.x releases (1.1.5.1 was the last one based off the CSRG code). I think NetBSD had the same issues with their pre 1.0 stuff.
The SWTPC 6800 was just as reliable as a PDP-11. I know that's saying something, but there it is...
That's when I tried it. NetBSD 0.8 came out in April 1993. I ran it (loading from floppies until FreeBSD 1.0 was November 1993. Ran nice on my box and never looked back until recently when I began using Linux more heavily.
The truth is out there. Do some research. You've got a lot of misconceptions about this history. 8-)
Google is your friend.
Bill
(anyone got a chair endowed for computer history?)
-- digital had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! pechter-at-ureach.com
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