Misspelt Eighth Edition.

The Eighth Edition is *not* descended from the Seventh Edition.

Submitted by: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
              and Dennis Ritchie

Here's a quote from Dennis Ritchie, posted to Warren Toomey:
[January 1999]
----- Forwarded message from dmr -----

I also got mail from Norman Wilson today about the discussion.

This is mainly to confirm and fill out details of Wilson's account.

The Eighth Edition system started with (I believe) BSD 4.1c and
the work was done on VAX 11/750s -- our group did not get
a 780 until a while later.

Most of the operating system superstructure of BSD was retained
(in particular no one (even the indefatigable Norman)
wanted to get much into the paging code.  Norman is also
right that the competitor was John Reiser's (and Tom London's)
32V descendant from another group at the Labs.  In structure
this system had a lot to offer (in particular the buffer cache and the page
pool were unified, but it was clear that their work was not being
supported by their own management.  It was used for a while on
our first 750 and also our first 11/780 ("alice", a name that lives
in netnews fame preceding  the reach of Dejanews).

The big change leading to V8 was the scooping-out and replacement of
the character-device and networking part by the streams mechanism.  Later,
Peter Weinberger added the file-system switch that enabled
remote file systems and prescient things ideas like /proc).  Weinberger,
as Norman said, also did a simple-minded FFS.

The TCP/IP stack wasn't very important to us then and it has a mixed and
murky history.  Much of it came from early CSRG work, but it was converted
to a streams approach by Robert Morris and subsequently fiddled over a lot.

Likewise, as Norman said, the applications (/bin and whatnot) were somewhat
of a mixture.  Many were the locally-done versions, some were taken
from BSD in some incarnation, some from System V.

        Dennis

----- End of forwarded message from dmr -----

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/share/misc/bsd-family-tree b/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
index 18283bb..033d0e5 100644
--- a/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
+++ b/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
@@ -12,24 +12,24 @@ Fourth Edition (V4)
 Fifth Edition (V5)
      |
 Sixth Edition (V6) -----*
-     |                  |
-     |                  |
-     |                  |
+       \                |
+        \               |
+         \              |
 Seventh Edition (V7)    |
-     |      \           |
-     |       \        1BSD
-     |       32V        |
-     |         \      2BSD---------------*
-Eight Edition   \    /                   |
-     |           \  /                    |
-     |            \/                     |
-     |           3BSD                    |
-     |            |                      |
-     |         4.0BSD               2.7.9BSD
-Ninth Edition     |                      |
-     |         4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD
-     |            |                      |
-     |            |                 2.8.1BSD
+            \           |
+             \        1BSD
+             32V        |
+               \      2BSD---------------*
+                \    /                   |
+                 \  /                    |
+                  \/                     |
+                 3BSD                    |
+                  |                      |
+               4.0BSD               2.7.9BSD
+                  |                      |
+       *------ 4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD
+      /           |                      |
+Eighth Edition     |                 2.8.1BSD
      |            |                      |
      |        4.1aBSD -----------\       |
      |            |                \     |
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ Ninth Edition     |                      |
      |            |                      |
      |            |                   2.9BSD-Seismo
      |            |                      |
-     |         4.2BSD               2.9.1BSD
+     +----<--- 4.2BSD               2.9.1BSD
      |            |                      |
-     |         4.3BSD -------------> 2.10BSD
+     +----<--- 4.3BSD -------------> 2.10BSD
      |            |               /      |
-     |            |              / 2.10.1BSD
+Ninth Edition     |              / 2.10.1BSD
      |         4.3BSD Tahoe-----+        |
      |            |              \       |
      |            |                \     |
-     |            |                  2.11BSD
+     v            |                  2.11BSD
 Tenth Edition     |                      |
                   |                  2.11BSD rev #366
                4.3BSD NET/1              |
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ it was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
 	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
 [SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
 [FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
+[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
 
 
 Multics                 1965
@@ -163,6 +164,12 @@ Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
 Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
 				first portable Unix
 Eight   Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
+				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
+				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
+				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
+			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device 
+			and networking part by the streams mechanism
+
 Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
 Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
 
@@ -278,4 +285,4 @@ Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
 Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
 URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
 
-$Date: 1998/08/19 12:58:38 $ $Revision: 1.9 $
+$Date: 1999/01/12 16:14:24 $ $Revision: 1.10 $