Downloading FreeBSD 4.4 took 4:44m!
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roXplosion · 2022-08-22 03:46

4.4? Was that 44 years ago?

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RelevantProposal · 2022-08-22 04:55

If FreeBSD 4.4 had come out 44 years ago, I'm pretty sure the world
would have ended up a bit different: the 8086 had just been released.

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tambow44 · 2022-08-22 06:32

Arguably the most important computer chip ever created.

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tambow44 · 2022-08-22 06:35

Not quite! I can tell you that 4.4BSD kernel used 162k lines of code ;
compared to 11BSD's 1.51m! (this is the "machine independent" code)

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ExoticAssociation817 · 2022-08-22 07:02

What’s a Boolean

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implicitpharmakoi · 2022-08-22 08:53

TYPE RAGE!!!!

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Jak_from_Venice · 2022-08-22 12:07

Stuff for people that doesn’t know how to deal with logical operators
and integers 😂

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VastAd1765 · 2022-08-22 12:21

And also the worst.

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[deleted] · 2022-08-22 13:00

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rtplor · 2022-08-24 14:37

Errrr. one of the reasons I abandoned FreeBSD nowadays was low speed
updates about 500kB/s  from my location.

Anyway 4.4 was fast and nice, used it on an office  internet gateway.

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rtplor · 2022-08-24 14:43

@@4.4? Was that 44 years ago?@@

Nope, it was more than 14 years ago and it's not that fun to see how
the classical unix project slips into a niche product.

4.4 was way better for maintenance than Linuces of that times. Ports
collection was precious thing before apt-get was widely introduced
with Ubuntu... I know I know.. but one of my colleagues had Debian
diali-in host hacked in 2003 🤐 so at those years I didn't consider the
distro to be safe... 😮

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tambow44 · 2022-08-25 09:57

Were your observed speeds different across OS's? I but plainly have
terrible internet.

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rtplor · 2022-08-25 10:20

I only played with virtual machines in VMW/H-V. Alongside other VMs
downloading  ports and updates were noticeable slower. But my internet
isn't that slow  but varying on destinations :-( and might be from
13-200Mbit per thread depending on the destination. (Sometimes
downloading ubuntu.iso may show 30-60MByte/s from their main site.)

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rtplor · 2022-08-25 10:28

There was notorious Motorola 68k Unix processor. 😀

Nobody considered 8086 to be that universal. But have a  look at Unix
desktop presentation in Computer chronicles video from 80s - all the
presented workstations were hell dead slow :-(((

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rtplor · 2022-08-25 10:33

Uh.. it's very rough statement.

Firstly 80s GUI was absolutely conquered by Apple, which used m68k.

And by the time of  late 486-Pentiums era Apple  was almost
outperformed by the  price  of Wintel. So what was going on during
1980s? Why Moto didn't evolve their CPU?

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VastAd1765 · 2022-08-25 11:03

Because IBM selected the x86 for the personal computer and we paid the
price for that ever since then.

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rtplor · 2022-08-27 04:08

I guess I need to ask Wikipedia if Moto and IBM joined efforts to
provide Apple with  PowerPC :-))))

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ExoticAssociation817 · 2022-08-31 04:42

You know it