Happy 20th Birthday, NetBSD! (Update)
20 years back from today, NetBSD was initially checked into
CVS. Revision 1.1 of src/Makefile was committed on March 21st 1993
on 09:45:37 by Chris Demetriou (cgd@):
% cvs log -Nr1.1 Makefile
...
revision 1.1
date: 1993/03/21 09:45:37; author: cgd; state: Exp;
branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
NetBSD was started as successor to the Berkeley System
Distribution (BSD) Unix with a focus on multiplatform
support.
Personally, I've followed NetBSD since the day
in 1993 when the Amiga port popped up, which was
the first platform that the newly forked
operating system was ported to after its
separation from BSD.
Many things have happened
in the past 20 years,
and a lot could be shown
and told for the history books
at this point. But I guess that can be done later - I'd be
happy to help out with such a project if someone wants to start it,
though :)
For today I'm very happy that NetBSD is available
on a wide range on platforms, runs the software that
I want and gives me the assurrance it will be around
tomorrow and hopefully for the next 20 years, too.
Cheers, NetBSD!
Update:
Jeremy Reed pointed me at his
BSDnewletter
posting, which gives a number of details of NetBSD's
history. Recommended reading!
[Tags: history, netbsd]
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