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That's wild. <4BSD was never on my radar at all, from my first encounters in 1990.

Morally, this isn't really 2.11 anymore after so much backporting and updating, so my questions would be, what's the utility of such a platform, if not nostalgia or legacy support?

Not clear which arches are supported, aside from i386. My love affair with Open/NetBSD was partially sparked by its enormous roster of cool hardware support.

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1989-90 you could still dial in to "Nyx", a PDP-11 at University of Denver, running 2.? BSD. The big attraction was Usenet access, Nyx probably got it via uucp.

Universities maintained legacy systems for sure, but in 1989, 4.3 was already a mature, gold standard, for the right hardware.

Personally I was put on SVR3/3B2, and SunOS on IPX/SLC type systems, along with an awareness of all kinds of other stuff available there, such as a "recreational" 4.3BSD VAX.

Oddly, I dialed in to Nyx from a 3b2. Paid extra for SVr3 to get that newfangled Korn shell.

Was there some CDC gear laying around in the back, cause if so we might have gone to the same place (where I ran some of the 4.3/VAX, recreationally).

2.11BSD is still a popular choice if you have a PDP-11 (or are emulating one).

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