Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:36:10 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>, Andy Basler <basaj@internetwis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD? Message-ID: <19980424103610.49492@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <353EA5C5.5CDC5FE0@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 10:21:57PM -0400 References: <353E5946.247D6B30@internetwis.com> <353E6873.1C22D136@san.rr.com> <353EA421.F7F96FFF@aei.ca> <353EA5C5.5CDC5FE0@aei.ca>
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On Wed, 22 April 1998 at 22:21:57 -0400, Malartre wrote: > Malartre wrote: > >> Studded wrote: >> >>> Andy Basler wrote: >>>> >>>> What does BSD stand for? >>> >>> Berkeley Standard Distribution. It is one of the members of the family >>> of unix'es. You might find searching your favorite web search engine for >>> the history of unix interesting. Then again, maybe not. :) >>> >> [quoted sig removed] >> >> In Greg Lehey's book and in many books, its "Berkeley Software Distribution". >> >> Am I wrong? No, that's what it says in the books. And it's correct. > And on www.bsdi.com its Berkeley Software Design! BSDI is a company. They're called Berkeley Software Design Inc. We don't have anything (much) to do with BSDI, and our abbreviation stands for Berkeley Software Distribution. Doug's not alone with the interpretation Berkeley Standard Distribution. O'Reilly and Associates, among others, have perpetrated this incorrect expansion in the past, but they've since corrected it. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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