On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:40:57AM -0800, James Howard wrote:
> (Brief background, I am bored.  I noticed a trend that everytime someone
> mentions BSD on Slashdot, someone asks what the differences are between
> the BSDs, aside from hype.  I am trying to resolve that question.)
> 
> So at this point, I am trying to figure out why NetBSD and FreeBSD didn't
> pool resource early.

I wasn't involved - here's my understanding from the discussions I've
seen.

Well, for the Kernel, that woudn't have been possible - FreeBSD didn't
want to be slowed down by doing all that 'portability' stuff, and NetBSD
wasn't willing to be Intel only. 

In userland, there probably could have been (and still could be?) more
co-development and sharing.

> Why did Jolitz pull support from 386BSD?  And what was BSDi doing at the
> time?

It was a project to do the port, it was never something he had intended
to maintain - he didn't 'pull' support, he just refused to get suckered
into ongoing work he didn't want to do.

BSDi was fighting the USL lawsuit I believe.

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