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The CSRG is better known as the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group.
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The '''CSRG''' is the short name for the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group.
  
This is the group that was responsible for [[CSRG BSD]].
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This is the group that was responsible for [[CSRG BSD]]. (Not to mention [[biff]], [[vi]], and of course [[sendmail]].)
 
 
Not to mention [[biff]], [[vi]], and of course [[sendmail]].
 
  
 
Notable people include [[Eric Allman]], [[Marshall Kirk McKusick]], [[Bill Joy]]..
 
Notable people include [[Eric Allman]], [[Marshall Kirk McKusick]], [[Bill Joy]]..
  
 
An excellent overview of the history of the CSRG, as told by Marshall Kirk McKusick is available [http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html here].
 
An excellent overview of the history of the CSRG, as told by Marshall Kirk McKusick is available [http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html here].
 
== Releases ==
 
The CSRG put together the following releases:
 
 
* [[3 BSD|3.0 BSD]] - Derived from 32v, including a real virtual memory system
 
* [[4.0 BSD]] - A vastly improved 3.0
 
* [[4.1 BSD]] - These were mostly betas testing new filesystems & the TCP/IP protocol.
 
* [[4.1a BSD]] - This included BBN's TCP/IP software
 
* [[4.1b BSD]] - This version introduced the [[FFS]] file system.
 
* [[4.1c BSD]] - A beta of 4.2, and I think the first version of BSD sockets?
 
* [[4.2 BSD]] - The first shipping version of BSD with TCP/IP, FFS & termcap for the [[VAX]].
 
* [[4.3 BSD]] - A version of pre-POSIX BSD, for the [[VAX]].
 
* [[4.4 BSD]] - Did this version ever ship?
 
* [[Net/1]] - The TCP/IP source, and other programs free of the AT&T copyrite
 
* [[Net/2]] - Almost an entire release of all the source.  This was the contention in the AT&T vs CSRG lawsuit.
 
* [[4.4 BSD Lite]] - This was the result of the aformentioned lawsuit.  This was 'lite' in that it removed the offending 6 files.
 
* [[4.4 BSD Lite2]] - the last release?
 
 
[[386 BSD]] This is the first Net/2 derived OS that then spawned the Net/FreeBSD os's.
 
  
 
== CD ==
 
== CD ==
 
[[Image:Csrg front of CD.jpg|150px]][[Image:Csrg back of CD.jpg|150px]]
 
[[Image:Csrg front of CD.jpg|150px]][[Image:Csrg back of CD.jpg|150px]]
  
 
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Kirk has released CD sets containing as much of the work of the CSRG as possible. You can download ISO's of them [http://ftp.wuppy.net.ru/pub/pub/BSD/CSRG/ here].
Kirk has released CD sets containing as much of the work of the CSRG as possible. You can download ISO's of them [http://ftp.wuppy.net.ru/pub/pub/BSD/CSRG/ here].
 
 
 
  
 
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Revision as of 18:41, 17 June 2018

The CSRG is the short name for the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group.

This is the group that was responsible for CSRG BSD. (Not to mention biff, vi, and of course sendmail.)

Notable people include Eric Allman, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Bill Joy..

An excellent overview of the history of the CSRG, as told by Marshall Kirk McKusick is available here.

CD

Csrg front of CD.jpgCsrg back of CD.jpg

Kirk has released CD sets containing as much of the work of the CSRG as possible. You can download ISO's of them here.