Hi Andrew,
andrew fabbro wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 05:17:28PM -0700:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 9:09 AM <openbsd.s...@0sg.net> wrote:
>> Deep down, I'm actually so saddened to see the original, and still
>> performing, UNIX has become so divided first splitting into three
>> *BSD communities, and then further diluted efforts with GNU and the
>> Linux kernel...
> The Unix landscape was fragmented long, long before Linux or the three
> modern BSDs even existed.
Correct. From my release list:
Jun 1980 System III AT&T UNIX (32v)
Jul 10, 1981* 4.1BSD [or June?]
Jan 1983 System V Release 1 AT&T UNIX (4.1)
1983 SunOS 1.0 (4.1)
Jun 1984 Ultrix-32 (4.2)
Feb 1985 Version 8 AT&T UNIX (4.1c + System V Release 2)
1986 AIX 1 (System V Release 2 + 4.3)
1987 MINIX 1.0
1988 IRIX 3.0 (System V Release 3 + 4.3)
Oct 5, 1991 Linux
Jan 1992 DEC OSF/1 V1.0 (4.3-Reno)
Mar 1992* 386BSD 0.0 (BSD Net/2)
Apr 1992 === USL vs. BSDi lawsuit filed ===
Jun 1992 Solaris 2.0 (System V Release 4)
Apr 20, 1993* NetBSD 0.8 (386BSD 0.1)
Nov 1, 1993 FreeBSD 1.0 (386BSD 0.1)
Feb 4, 1994 === USL vs. BSDi lawsuit settlement ===
Jun 23, 1995* 4.4BSD-Lite2
Jul 1996* OpenBSD 1.2 (NetBSD 1.0)
Jul 12, 2004 DragonFly BSD 1.0 (FreeBSD 4.8)
So your "long, long" can be quantified as almost exactly 10 years,
and besides, Linux preceded NetBSD and FreeBSD by two years, so
the OPs "and then further diluted efforts" is factually incorrect.
(GNU development even started in 1984, but it can hardly be called
a complete operating system until the Linux kernel was released.)
Yours,
Ingo
* indicates direct ancestors of OpenBSD
() means "based on"
