Berkeley Software Distribution

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is the UNIX derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley starting in the 1970s. The name is also used collectively for the modern descendants of these distributions.

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UNIX - University of California, Berkeley - 1970s

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BSD was widely identified with the versions of Unix available for workstation-class systems, a factor attributable to its use as an easily-licensed operating system familiar to the founders of many 1980s tech startups from educational use, the most notable versions being DEC's Ultrix and Sun's SunOS. While largely superseded by the System V Release 4.x and OSF/1 systems in the 1990s, the adoption of modified open source versions of the codebase spurred much Internet development.

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DEC - Ultrix - Sun - SunOS - System V - OSF/1 - Open source - Internet

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