Subj : Re: Pi4 to Pi5 migration To : bp@www.zefox.net From : Ahem A Rivet's Shot Date : Mon Jun 17 2024 21:31:02 On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:03:37 -0000 (UTC) wrote: > Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:41 -0000 (UTC) > > More like five years, the 80386 came out in 1987. There were > > BSD ports available by 1993 and the first Linux release was in 1991. > > However that's just open source - There were commercial XENIX and > > Interactive ports earlier - even for the 80286. > > We're comparing different endpoints. I started with 386BSD and it > could be made to install and run by about 1992, but that alone was > an accomplishment for a non-expert like me. It took a few more Indeed it was - did you have the patch kit ? > years to become _usable_ by non-experts, in the form of FreeBSD. Nope FreeBSD 1.0 came out in November 1993 - I was using 1.1.5.1 to run a Dublin based ISP in 1994. We gave Jordan Hubbard a free account when we discovered he was visiting Ireland and he gave us a stack of 1.1 discs. He got the better deal :) > Maybe I'm off a little on the dates (I learned of 386BSD about a > year after the Byte Magazine series by Jolitz) but then it was > still very fiddly. By about 1997-8 I was using FreeBSD for email. That would be late 2.2 or early 3.0 days - 3.0 was the release that included APM support for laptops, one of the few occasions I ran -current. > Others were doubtless quicker on the uptake, but they were a select Many others between 1994 and 1998. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/ For forms of government let fools contest Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .