Re: Pi4 to Pi5 migration

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:03:37 -0000 (UTC)
<bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
 

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> 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 ?

Not to begin with, the patch kit came later. Can't remember exactly
when I started with 386BSD. The Byte issues had gone to the bindery,
so it was at least six months after publication.

 

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 :)
>

IIRC 1.1.5.1 worked pretty well, as the last encumbered version. Am I
confused? The early un-encumbered versions were somewhat rough.
[encumbered meaning "contains AT&T code"]
 

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.

3.0 rings a bell.

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska