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Re: Firsts in NetBSD



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On 07.01.2016 19:13, Swift Griggs wrote:
> 
> I'm writing some documentation for a class I'm teaching soon at my 
> job. One section covers various BSD's (each separate) contribution 
> to features in the collective endowment of Unix variants out 
> there.
> 
> Here are the things I believe NetBSD was first at doing. Can
> anyone else think of ones that'd be worthy of note to a group of 
> up-and-coming Unix geeks ?
> 
> * First with a USB stack (beat Linux didn't it?) * First with TCP 
> Auto tuning (Linux's autotune based on NetBSD's strategy) * First 
> with Free ports to Alpha, HPPA, and MIPS (true?)
> 
> I know there are more NetBSD "first to do XYZ". Does anyone care to
> correct those three or give me some more? Thanks in advance, 
> friends.
> 
> -Swift

First to get C++11 on VAX and I think pioneer to get amd64 support.

First to get rumpkernel architecture and reuse kernel code as a
library (lately Intel is trying to clone it with the Linux kernel).
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