/*
* Authors of 386BSD were William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz. William Jolitz did 2BSD(76-81) on PDP-11,
* a collection of work from many sources. Lynne Jolitz was an early 2BSD user (and critic)
* who challenged BSD system assumptions, reduced them, wrote and redesigned them.
* 386BSD departed from BSD as a return to UNIX origins but in modern form.
*/
authors_origin("Authors of 386BSD origin","June 1982");
/*
* Origin of the 386BSD code was with the 4BSD release by University of California,
* from work done at Symmetric Computer Systems, makers of the 375 computer system.
*/
code_origin("Code origin of 386BSD","May 1985");
/*
* Inception date of 386BSD was with the publishing of "A Modest Proposal".
* Actual coding started in June, and the first success was a bootstrap
* from DOS later in the month. When it looked like it could be shared
* as a group development project, this document was written to gather
* a community around it.
*/
date_inception("A Modest Proposal","October 1989");
/*
* Essays on the CDROM.
*/
essays_on_cdrom("CDROM Essays", "Sept 1994");
/*
* 386BSD departed from other systems in having a compartmentalized structure
* that allowed a "roll back" to earlier working versions of a dynamic component,
* where components were completely independant. It was intended that this
* modularity would increase resilience, not make the system fragile by having
* more working parts ("shared libraries", "kernel loadable modules", ...)
* with conflicts.
*
* Current mechanisms with operating systems represent a step backward to be
* avoided, as the advantage of them is minimal compared to the reliability lost.
*
*/
modular_structure("Modular Structure");
/*
* Origin of the 386BSD name was with the first 16Mhz release by Intel, starting the
* architecture family. Most software vendors call all in this family, which includes
* strangely enough the AMD 64-bit version, the "386" architecture.
*
* There has only been one architecture, no matter how refined or redefined by others
* to suit peculiar needs.
*
* 386BSD is BSD on the 386.
*/
name_origin("Name origin of 386BSD", "May 1985");
/*
* Maureen O'Gara is a journalist who covered USL/BSDI, and is now covering SCO/IBM.
* Her hard hitting style leaves people wondering about bias - see "Is O'Gara Really Pro-Sco?"
* Which has an excellent recount of the whole debacle. History repeats itself in peculiar ways.
*/
ogara("Press Coverage by O'Gara", "August 1992");
/*
* 386BSD never was identical to BSD as released by the University of California Berkeley.
* The agenda of releases by CSRG had different motivations than the simple point of 386BSD.
* In particular, Net/2, Net/3, 4.4BSD and Lite versions went into areas where 386BSD could
* not go. The reverse was true - past Net/2, nothing new from 386BSD went into CSRG.
* BSD as released from Berkeley came to an end as a collaboration with Net/2.
*/
part_uc_berkeley("Where 386BSD Parts with Berkeley BSD", "December 1992");
/*
* 386BSD was first released inside the University of California and the US
* Department of Energy in 1989. Major parts were released in the Networking
* II release that was labelled by University of Californa as "freely
* redistributeable".
*
* Release 0.0 was made following to satisfy the obligation to the readers of
* the porting series that an operational version of the code as an example be
* available under the same terms. Release 0.1 eliminated many issues faced in
* 0.0 release. Release 0.2 never happened with inability of formal release
* handoff to an institution.
*
* Release 1.0 formalized the modular environment that was
* intended for the final work with the University of California but released as
* a magazine project instead.
* Liner Notes: The 386BSD Release 1.0 CDROM Liner Notes
*/
past_releases("Releases of 386BSD", "December 1993");
/*
* Porting series.
*/
porting_series("Porting Series in DDJ and Unix Magazin", "January 1991");
/*
* Over a thousand pages of notes, correspondance, and documentation were organized
* into a five volume book series known as "Source Code Secrets". The first of these
* was "The Basic Kernel", which captured the essence of a kernel in extreme detail.
* The intent with CD and book series was to capture the experience as a "living
* example", and release subsequent materials as demand required and returns justified.
*/
publication("Publication of The Basic Kernel", "December 1996");
/*
* Interview "The Unknown Hackers" in Salon about authors 386BSD experience.
*/
salon_interview("Unknown Hackers", "May 2000");
/*
* Accurate view of what the role of BSD was, and should have continued to be.
* "The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix" by Michael G. Brown.
*/
theroleofbsd("The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix", "August 1993");
/*
* A user's view of 386BSD from the time. "386BSD: A Look Under The Hood." by Andrew McRae,
* a 386BSD user experience.
*/
user_perspective("User Perspective", "January 1993");
/*
* A comparative view of BSDs and Linux. "BSD-based OS Releases" by Rich Morin.
*/
variant_bsds("Variant BSD History", "November 1994");
/*
* If you'd like to re-live the past with a live 386BSD system,
* you now can. Those genuine users can get shell accounts to
* various vintage and modern systems.
*/
question("Want access to the past?", "January 1994");
return();
