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That's sort of reconned, though. NetBSD split from FreeBSD because the former was a bunch of Unix hackers working on Unix hardware and the latter wanted to focus on the 386 port. Both OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD stem, ultimately, from personality conflicts within the developer community in FreeBSD.

They all found their purpose after the splits, not before.

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NetBSD and FreeBSD both forked 386BSD; NetBSD didn't fork/split from FreeBSD. OpenBSD forked NetBSD and Dragonfly forked FreeBSD.

> Both OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD stem, ultimately, from personality conflicts within the developer community in FreeBSD.

> They all found their purpose after the splits, not before.

Indeed. And both are still heavily influenced by the forking BDFL figures (Theo, Dillon).

NetBSD is older than FreeBSD.

NetBSD was forked from 386BSD and then repatched with Net/2 code.

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