> On 20 Jun 2020, at 07:07, Warner Losh <i...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Author: imp
> Date: Sat Jun 20 04:07:44 2020
> New Revision: 362420
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362420
>
> Log:
> Correct 1BSD release date.
>
> The Quarter Century of Unix book said that 1BSD was released March 1979.
> However, the 1BSD tape image that's on Kirk's historical unix collection has
> an
> earlier date.
>
> It was common practice, at the time, to create a new copy of the tape from
> the
> master system when a new tape was to go out, so several different versions of
> 1BSD, etc were shipped from Berkerely. The date on the 1BSD tape in the
> Berkeley
> archives on Kirk's DVD is dated in January 16 1979 on the label, and has
> dates
> as late as Jan 29 (there's an UPDATE file that says this includes updates
> through this date). Note this date as well.
>
> Modified:
> head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
>
> Modified: head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Sat Jun 20 04:07:23 2020
> (r362419)
> +++ head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Sat Jun 20 04:07:44 2020
> (r362420)
> @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ Ninth Edition 1986-09-xx [QCU]
> Tenth Edition 1989-10-xx [QCU]
>
> 1BSD late 1977
> + 1978-01-16 [DOC]
Ah, this is my birthday (too)! :)
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