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On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:09 pm, Daniel Hawton wrote:

>  4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said.

Let me give acknowledgment to Greg Lehey ahead of time for this as this 
bit that follows comes from _The Complete FreeBSD_.

".. by the mid-80s, there were four different versions of UNIX: the 
Research Version ... the Berkeley Software Distribution ... System V 
... and XENIX, "

Sorry for omitting parts, but the overall idea of the passage remains 
intact.

I believe, and someone correct me here, that BSD was a modification of 
the /original/ UNIX code which existed prior to Sys V in 1983, 
indicating that BSD and Sys V are different branches from the same 
trunk.  The history is rather confusing though, so I expect to be wrong 
on this.

-- 
Todd Stephens
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, 
while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato