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Berkeley Software Design, the Glossary

Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI or, later, BSDi), was a corporation which developed, sold licenses for, and supported BSD/OS (originally known as BSD/386), a commercial and partially proprietary variant of the BSD Unix operating system for PC compatible (and later, other) computer systems.^[1]

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AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Berkeley Software Distribution

The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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BSD/OS

BSD/OS (originally called BSD/386 and sometimes known as BSDi) is a discontinued proprietary version of the BSD operating system developed by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Berkeley Software Design and BSD/OS are Berkeley Software Distribution.

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CD-ROM

A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.

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Computer Systems Research Group

The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) was a research group at the University of California, Berkeley that was dedicated to enhancing AT&T Unix operating system and funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Berkeley Software Design and Computer Systems Research Group are Berkeley Software Distribution.

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Convex Computer

Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Berkeley Software Design and FreeBSD are Berkeley Software Distribution.

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Freeware

Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.

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History of the Berkeley Software Distribution

The history of the Berkeley Software Distribution begins in the 1970s. Berkeley Software Design and history of the Berkeley Software Distribution are Berkeley Software Distribution.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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Initial public offering

An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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IXsystems

iXsystems, Inc. is a privately owned American computer technology company based in San Jose, California that develops, sells and supports computing and storage products and services. Berkeley Software Design and IXsystems are American companies established in 1991, Berkeley Software Distribution and software companies established in 1991.

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Keith Bostic (software engineer)

Keith Bostic (born July 26, 1959) is an American software engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix and open-source software.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Marshall Kirk McKusick

Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day.

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Michael J. Karels

Michael J. Karels (August 2, 1956 – June 2, 2024) was an American software engineer and one of the key figures in history of BSD UNIX.

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Novell

Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Berkeley Software Design and Novell are Defunct software companies of the United States.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)

Richard L. "Rick" Adams, Jr. is an American Internet pioneer.

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Slackware

Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Source code

In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Unix System Laboratories

Unix System Laboratories (USL), sometimes written UNIX System Laboratories to follow relevant trademark guidelines of the time, was an American software laboratory and product development company that existed from 1989 through 1993. Berkeley Software Design and Unix System Laboratories are Defunct software companies of the United States.

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UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc.

USL v. BSDi was a lawsuit brought in New Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents of the University of California over intellectual property related to the Unix operating system; a culmination of the Unix wars. Berkeley Software Design and UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. are Berkeley Software Distribution.

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UNIX System V

Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system.

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USENIX

USENIX is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization based in Berkeley, California and founded in 1975 that supports advanced computing systems, operating system (OS), and computer networking research.

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UUNET

UUNET, founded in 1987, was one of the first and largest commercial Internet service providers and one of the early Tier 1 networks.

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Walnut Creek CDROM

Walnut Creek CDROM Inc. was an early provider of freeware, shareware, and free software on CD-ROMs. Berkeley Software Design and Walnut Creek CDROM are American companies established in 1991, Defunct software companies of the United States and software companies established in 1991.

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William Jolitz

William Frederick Jolitz (February 22, 1957 – March 2, 2022), commonly known as Bill Jolitz, was an American software engineer best known for developing the 386BSD operating system from 1989 to 1994 along with his wife Lynne Jolitz.

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Wind River Systems

Wind River Systems, also known as Wind River (trademarked as Wndrvr), is an Alameda, California–based company, subsidiary of Aptiv PLC.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Design

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