Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:34:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dave <dave@hawk-systems.com> Cc: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Stand For Message-ID: <20010830113455.J97083@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNGENIIBAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>; from dave@hawk-systems.com on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:30:22PM -0400 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010829180006.03325228@mail.Go2France.com> <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNGENIIBAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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On Wednesday, 29 August 2001 at 21:30:22 -0400, Dave wrote: >>> Berkley Software Design, I am sure this has to be in the faq and a million >>> other places >> >> wrong, go read the faq and million other places. >> >> ---------------------------- >> FROM: Greg Lehey >> DATE: 04/27/1998 00:28:51 >> SUBJECT: RE: What does BSD stand for? >> On Thu, 23 April 1998 at 21:21:59 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smrgrav wrote: >>> "Dr. Buchacher Anton" <<EMAIL: PROTECTED>> writes: >>>> My question is simple: What does BSD stand for? >>>> Thanks a lot. >>> >>> Depending on whom you ask, "Berkely Standard Distribution" or "Berkely >>> Software Distribution". The latter is canonical AFAIK. >> >> This last went past just a couple of days ago. "Berkeley Software >> Distribution". All else is just plain wrong. > > ALAMEDA, Calif., April 4, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a > leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today > announced a definitive agreement to purchase the software assets of Berkeley > Software Design, Inc. (BSDi), the world?s first commercial supplier of BSD UNIX, > an advanced operating system (OS) for the Internet. Under the agreement, Wind > River will purchase the commercial version of the BSD UNIX-based OS (BSD/OST) > and development tools. Wind River will also support FreeBSD, a collaborative > open source development effort, to advance BSD technologies. Financial details > will not be disclosed. Wind River expects to close this transaction by late > April 2001. BSDi and BSD are two different things. BSD stands for "Berkeley Software Distribution". All else is jut plain wrong. BSD[Ii] stood for Berkeley Software Design Inc., but I don't know what that has to do with the matter. Note that this press release is pretty inaccurate anyway. "World?s"? BSDi did *not* supply BSD UNIX; that was made abundantly clear at the end of the AT&T lawsuit. And the operating system was called BSD/OS, not BSD/OST. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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