On Aug 17,  9:21pm, "Jeff Rollin" wrote:
} On 27/03/07, Holger Weiss <lists@jhweiss.de> wrote:
} > * Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> [2007-03-27 14:49]:
} > > While we're on the subject of nostalgia, why the sudden jump from 1.x
} > > to 2.x and now 3.x and 4.x? It's my impression that when I tried
} > > NetBSD in Y2K or so, (release 1.5.2 or 1.6 or something), release
} > > numbers, if not progress, were a lot slower in coming?
} >
} > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2004/09/30/0020.html
} > http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/release-map.html
} > http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/release-map.html#old-branches
} 
} One question that I didn't find answered was: If 1.5 and 1.6 are major
} releases, when (under the old scheme) would 1.x have turned into 2.x?

     At that time, the idea was only really big things would cause the
first number to change.  That change was native pthreads (the infamous
SA implementation) and most platforms got SMP.  After 2.0, the release
numbering scheme changed.

}-- End of excerpt from "Jeff Rollin"