I’d like a count. How many people actually went to a terminal and typed: SL?
Give this post a thumbs up if you tried it (be honest, please).
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The answer to why TrueNAS SCALE is the most downloaded version.
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There never was a FreeBSD release running on the VAX. FreeBSD started in 1993 on i386. You probably mean 4.4BSD or 4.3BSD. Which is not FreeBSD in any way!
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Thank you for that. For some reason I have 4.4 in my head re the system version but the link you included suggested that 4.4 wasn’t released until well after the VAX was junked in 1990. Oh well. It was a grand machine, now heating the cellar of a fellow student who was a freshman when I was a senior.
At least it already existed. Had to decipher “ze Germans” and find the cuckoo’s eggs those days … man … but nothing beats the docs for PDP7 …
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Closest I came to that was pops’ Siemens Nixdorf computer which featured BASIC in German. And that my friend was high tech compared to the punch-card system he’d bought before that. By 1982, that was considered so rare, a German museum carted it off as soon as a cousin of mine was done typing in all the addresses off the punch cards and into the new system.
Nixdorf 8870 “Quattro”, probably. With “Business Basic” and an integrated ISAM database builtin. Insanely hot shit for the time. Customers loved it.
For example they used the prevalent internal phone cabling standard “ADo 8” to connect terminals. Similar to how twisted pair Ethernet came into existence in the US. These ran at 19200 BPS over EIA-485 (IIRC), could multiplex two sessions and a directly connected printer. Mask oriented architecture for quick local editing of forms, similar to IBM 3270.
The leading business software was named “Comet”, also by Nixdorf, written in BASIC and came with two shelves of implementation manuals.
Extensions and customisations were actively encouraged and a myriad of small development companies supported industry specific custom solutions.
I joined the team when we started to migrate 8870 systems to Siemens/Pyramid Sinix (very well implemented Unix SysVR4) machines based on the MIPS RISC architecture with “Crossbasic” that emulated the entire 8870 environment on Unix. These machines ran circles around the older hardware while staying 100% compatible.
Great times 
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IIRC, it was an integrated display and keyboard. Maybe had a HDD but definitely a floppy or two. Monochrome screen and a nearly all white keyboard unlike the 620. The screen was also bigger. I cannot find a pic of it online ATM.
EDIT: must have been a pure Nixdorf at the time as the CPU was purchased in 81 or so and the merger with Siemens didn’t happen until years later.
Pops later switched us to Toshiba laptops because they were portable. By then they were up to Windows 3.1.
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1990 (Oct 1st).
Not to go on a tangent, but are you saving your documents directly inside the jail’s root filesystem? (You should be using mountpoints.)
There’s no way that simply installing that software in a jail would balloon to 30 GiB.
0 documents, im still installing 
This will be a weird place in a few years. A select few will be posting “XYZ updated in base FreeBSD” and the newer users posting responses like: “#urdumb Why are you posting about FreeBSD in a Linux distro forum?”
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As Philip II of Macedon was conquering Greek city-states left and right, Sparta was left alone. Philip had achieved a crushing victory, and Sparta was relatively weak and without walls. Philip sent a message to the Spartans saying “If I invade Lakonia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.” The Spartans replied with one word, “If.”
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Hot take: TrueNAS is living through the Second Punic War and everyone agrees: Hannibal ad portas
Of course, there’s violent disagreement on who’s playing the role of Hannibal and who is Rome.
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What stage are they in now? Bargaining or Anger?