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From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:03:37 -0000 (UTC)
<bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:41 -0000 (UTC)

> >          More like five years, the 80386 came out in 1987. There were
> > BSD ports available by 1993 and the first Linux release was in 1991.
> > However that's just open source - There were commercial XENIX and
> > Interactive ports earlier - even for the 80286.
> 
> We're comparing different endpoints. I started with 386BSD and it
> could be made to install and run by about 1992, but that alone was
> an accomplishment for a non-expert like me. It took a few more 

	Indeed it was - did you have the patch kit ?

> years to become _usable_ by non-experts, in the form of FreeBSD.

	Nope FreeBSD 1.0 came out in November 1993 - I was using 1.1.5.1 to
run a Dublin based ISP in 1994. We gave Jordan Hubbard a free account when
we discovered he was visiting Ireland and he gave us a stack of 1.1 discs.
He got the better deal :)

> Maybe I'm off a little on the dates (I learned of 386BSD about a
> year after the Byte Magazine series by Jolitz) but then it was
> still very fiddly. By about 1997-8 I was using FreeBSD for email.

	That would be late 2.2 or early 3.0 days - 3.0 was the release that
included APM support for laptops, one of the few occasions I ran -current.

> Others were doubtless quicker on the uptake, but they were a select

	Many others between 1994 and 1998.

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