BSD for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Working With One of the Hottest Versions of Unix"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

BSD Unix is one of the two main branches of that operating system. It stands for Berkeley Software Distribution.

The world of Unix is now divided between (AT&T oriented) System V and this one.

Unix originally dates back to 1969 and was developed by AT&T

AT&T distributed Unix to various universities, including the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley, leading to this one.

Students at Berkeley were about to study it and soon started making their own additions and enhancements, on their own time or as class projects. Starting about 1976 they had their own version.

BSD Unix helped introduce such improvements as Virtual Memory, TCP/IP networking, the vi text editor and job control

The university released this in 1992 leading to lawsuits with AT&T which were eventually settled out of court.

It has mutated into FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and BSD/OS, and is used in the Mac OS.

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