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Firsts & facts about NetBSD - wrapup




Here's everything from all the folks who gave me ideas or tidbits. Thank you folks!

* First with a USB stack

* First with TCP Auto tuning (Linux's autotune is based on NetBSD's
  strategy, Windows Vista also came later and used the same technique)

* First with Free ports to Alpha, HPPA, and MIPS

* First with an 802.11 stack, net80211.

* First with the extensible 802.11 radio-information header, radiotap.

* First to get C++11 on VAX

* First to get rumpkernel architecture and reuse kernel code as a library.

* Among the first free operating systems to use CVS shortly after it's debut.

* Among the first to support the Xen hypervisor

* Possibly the first, and definitely among the first free OS's to support the AMD64 processor architecture

* Among the most popular open source operating systems in Japan


-Swift


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