Subject: Re: oldest boot record?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Paul Dokas <dokas@mail.attbi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2002 13:24:38
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:53:18AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Paul Dokas wrote:
> 
> : I've got a full copy of 386/BSD from around '92, on a set of 5.25"
> : floppies.  Maybe I'll dig out the 5.25" drive and copy them off
> : someday....  Anyone want a copy of them?
> 
> 386BSD can be found on some FTP sites these days, such as
> minnie.tuhs.org:/BSD/386bsd among others.  So unless you have an `interim
> patchkit version', it's probably already there.  :)

Yup, I've got 386/BSD 0.1, both the dist and src files on ~25 5.25" floppies.
It's on minnie.tuhs.org.  They've also got 386/BSD 0.0 there.

> Note, however, that 386BSD contains some AT&T license-encumbered source
> code, so *technically* it's not legal to redistribute.  However, the legal
> situations surrounding this fairly minimal amount of code have passed some
> time ago, and it's likely that AT&T no longer cares about this 10-year-old
> distribution....

Ok, I guess that the floppies stay with me.  I really don't want to be a 
test case.

Paul
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Paul Dokas                                            dokas@cs.umn.edu
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