On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 02:26:28PM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> The first generally available post-Alice release was around NetBSD 
> 0.8 or so when Linux still didn't work well.  The port was started on 
> A/UX using pre-BSD4.4 source code.

We actually started with the Jolitz 386BSD, IIRC, then started trying to
catch up with NetBSD releases when we figured out that that's where we
really wanted to be working.  Looks like we imported into the NetBSD CVS
in the fall of 1993:

(from machdep.c)
	revision 1.1
	date: 1993/09/29 06:09:16;  author: briggs;  state: Exp;
	branches:  1.1.1;
	Initial revision

It would have been booting before this, and the booter message was there
for the first boots--I might have email archives that date the working
booter, but I'm not sure...

Not only was the port started on A/UX, the booter started out loading
the NetBSD kernel from the A/UX root filesystem.  We cross-compiled
under A/UX, copied the kernel into root, and then used the booter to
load it.

-allen

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