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What is BSD?
Early in 1977 Bill Joy of Sun fame put together the very first Berkley Software Distribution. That distribution through 21.11 BSD has heavily used on PDP-11s.

In 1978-1979 Bill Joy began the port of BSD to Vax Unix. This was known as 3BSD. In early 1980s DARPA funded further BSd development.

In early 1990s a lawsuit was settled between AT&T and UC in which opensource could use BSD-Lite as its codebase as long as it kept copyrighs and copyright credtis intact. Thus, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and etc are all based on BSD-Lite codebase.

Also See: Voices From the OpenSource Revolution

last edited (November 5, 2003) by BadAttitude, Number of views: 1983, Current Rev: 1

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