Re: Firsts in NetBSD

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 7 January 2016 at 18:13, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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 ?
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> * 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?)
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> 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.

I think NetBSD may have been the first *nix to be publicly booted on
the original Apple G3 iMac.

From comments made by someone from Apple at a Usenix back then I think
it may be the first *nix to boot on the G3 iMac at all, but someone
from Apple would need to confirm :-p