On 8/25/21 9:12 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I was thinking PC BSD (?), NetBSD and another that I think became FreeBSD. There was a hot law suite about BSD at the time that allowed Linux to get all the attention because it wasn't tied up in court.
You're probably thinking of 386BSD, by Bill and Lynne Jolitz. It was initially based on the 4.3BSD Net/2 release. Out of that grew NetBSD and FreeBSD, with the former focused on multi-platform portability and the latter being very PC-centric. During the course of their development, both were re-based onto 4.4BSD-Lite. Not long after, a childish spat between some of the more headstrong core NetBSD developers resulted in one of them taking his toys and stomping off in a huff, forming OpenBSD. The tagline there was that they were focused on security, but for years all that meant was everything was commented out in the as-shipped inetd.conf. While there were other forks here and there, those three remain to carry the BSD legacy. There was also BSD/386, a commercial variant by BSDi which was based in part on the Jolitz' original 386BSD work. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA