svn commit: r362420 - head/share/misc

Dmitry Sivachenko trtrmitya at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 07:29:07 UTC 2020



> On 20 Jun 2020, at 07:07, Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Author: imp
> Date: Sat Jun 20 04:07:44 2020
> New Revision: 362420
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362420
> 
> Log:
>  Correct 1BSD release date.
> 
>  The Quarter Century of Unix book said that 1BSD was released March 1979.
>  However, the 1BSD tape image that's on Kirk's historical unix collection has an
>  earlier date.
> 
>  It was common practice, at the time, to create a new copy of the tape from the
>  master system when a new tape was to go out, so several different versions of
>  1BSD, etc were shipped from Berkerely. The date on the 1BSD tape in the Berkeley
>  archives on Kirk's DVD is dated in January 16 1979 on the label, and has dates
>  as late as Jan 29 (there's an UPDATE file that says this includes updates
>  through this date). Note this date as well.
> 
> Modified:
>  head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
> 
> Modified: head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree	Sat Jun 20 04:07:23 2020	(r362419)
> +++ head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree	Sat Jun 20 04:07:44 2020	(r362420)
> @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
> Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
> 
> 1BSD                    late 1977
> +			1978-01-16 [DOC]


Ah, this is my birthday (too)!   :)



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