Subject: Re: oldest boot record?
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2002 14:53:54
On Thursday, 28 March 2002 at 22:32:15 +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> Markus Illenseer wrote:
>
>>> OK, anyone can beat this:
>>>
>>> 	http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/messages ?
>>>
>>> NetBSD 0.9/amiga from aug '93... anyone got an older boot log?
>>> (The machine's still at my parents' place, switched off, with 1.1
>>> installed ;-)
>>
>>  I can't, but I can beat you with the kernel:
>>
>> -rw-r--r--   1 markus  wheel   261927 Aug  8  1993 vmunix.569.gz
>
> I see your kernel and raise you a binary :-)
>
> 	euclid:~ 1> ls -l /usr/local/bin/rz
> 	-rwxr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  53248 Jun 28  1992 /usr/local/bin/rz*
> 	euclid:~ 2> file /usr/local/bin/rz
> 	/usr/local/bin/rz: 386 demand paged pure executable
> 	euclid:~ 3> /usr/local/bin/rz
> 	rz ready. To begin transfer, type "sz file ..." to your modem program
> 	...
>
> At that age it's probably a 386BSD binary, but I keep it around anyways.

Well, I suppose this one's cheating, but nobody said it had to be
NetBSD, right?

May 30 15:59:03 allegro kernel: BSDI BSD/386 1.0 Kernel #0: Wed Mar 24 17:23:44 MST 1993
May 30 15:59:03 allegro kernel:     polk@hilltop.BSDI.COM:/home/hilltop/polk/sys.clean/compile/GENERIC
May 30 15:59:03 allegro kernel: cpu = 80486 (about 50 MHz) 
May 30 15:59:03 allegro kernel: delay multiplier 748
May 30 15:59:03 allegro kernel: real mem = 16777216
May 30 15:59:03 allegro kernel: avail mem = 15339520

That's 1993, of course.  I should have logs well over a year older
than that; I started with BSD/386 almost exactly 10 years ago.

Greg
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