On Tuesday, 30 November 1999 at 12:14:12 -0800, Ross Harvey wrote:
> I wasn't involved when any of the projects were started, but it's my
> understanding that NetBSD was first. Certainly, it was the first with a
> release.  So, I would say, "don't ask us, when we started there were none."

Well, in fact 386BSD predates all three free BSDs.  The developer of
386BSD, Bill Jolitz, kept the source code for himself and didn't
commit much-needed changes, so people split off their own projects,
first NetBSD, then FreeBSD.  OpenBSD split off NetBSD some time later.

> Now, if you think about it, there are really four BSD's. The
> for-profit BSDI did a release even earlier than NetBSD.

Right.  They also predate 386BSD.

Greg
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