The Berkeley Software Distribution | … rich and detailed history of the back story of BSD Unix

My first encounter was 4.2 BSD but I didn’t really know where it came from until now…

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution

via Rich Salz on TUHS

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2 responses to “The Berkeley Software Distribution | … rich and detailed history of the back story of BSD Unix”

  1. @alecm at NRL we brought up IPng (SIPP, then v6) on BSDI 1.0, then 4.4encumbered, the BSDI 2.0(4.4based). All of that article feels like prelude to my first day at NRL 30years ago!

  2. @alecm I started on 4.1, and I know some of the players, but the comments about Keith Bostic’s contributions are new to me and hilarious

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