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‎Notable releases: Merged duplicate targets

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‎Notable releases: Add some 4.3 variants, some important (like Tahoe)

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‎External links: +The Berkeley Software Distribution

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Tweaks

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‎See also: +BSD Daemon

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‎External links: +Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions papers

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‎External links: +Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to the UNIX Operating System

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‎External links: +bsd family tree

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‎External links: +The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin

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‎External links: +Arch IPC

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 * [[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.
-** [[4.3 BSD NFS Wisconsin Unix]]
+** [[4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix]]
 ** [[4.3 BSD Tahoe‎]] - 4.3 made [[portable]] to other [[instruction set architecture|ISPs]]
 ** [[4.3 BSD Reno]] - move toward POSIX compliance

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 * [[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

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 * [https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/acrobat/791204.pdf Data Structures Added in the Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to the UNIX Operating System] - ditto
 * [https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - a crisp, clear history of the BSD effort
 * [https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree bsd family tree]
 * [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050505095249230 The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin: Chapter 7 - BSD and the CSRG]

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-'''Berkeley Software Distribution''' (usually abbreviated to '''BSD''') was the series of [[UNIX]] distributions created by the [[Computer Systems Research Group‎]]. The CSRG put together the following releases:
+'''Berkeley Software Distribution''' (usually abbreviated to '''BSD''') was the series of [[UNIX]] distributions created by the [[Computer Systems Research Group‎]] at Berkeley. The CSRG put together the following releases:
 == Notable releases ==
-* [[2.9BSD]] - For [[PDP-11]]s, a full release from CSRG (prior releases were patches)
+* [[2.9BSD]] - For [[PDP-11]]s, the first full release from CSRG (prior releases were patches)
 * [[2.10BSD]]
-* [[2.11BSD]] - A still-maintained version
+* [[2.11BSD]] - A still-maintained version for PDP-11S
 * [[3 BSD|3.0 BSD]] - A [[VAX]] version derived from [[Unix/32V]], including a real [[virtual memory]] system
 * [[4.0 BSD]] - A vastly improved 3.0

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 ** [[FreeBSD]]
 ** [[OpenBSD]]
 ==External links==

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 * [https://www.jslite.net/notes/joy2.pdf Proposal for enhancement of UNIX on the VAX] - Berkeley's proposal to [[DARPA]] that led to 4.0 and its successors
 * [https://www.jslite.net/notes/joy1.pdf An architecture for Interprocess Communication in UNIX]
-* [https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=3BSD/usr/doc/vmunix/design.t Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to the UNIX Operating System]
+* [http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/3BSD/design.pdf Design and Implementation of the Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to the UNIX Operating System] - PDF, not a scan
 * [https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - a crisp, clear history of the BSD effort
 * [https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree bsd family tree]

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 * [https://www.jslite.net/notes/joy1.pdf An architecture for Interprocess Communication in UNIX]
 * [https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - a crisp, clear history of the BSD effort
 {{Nav Unix}}
 [[Category: CSRG BSD]]

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	* [https://www.jslite.net/notes/joy2.pdf Proposal for enhancement of UNIX on the VAX] - Berkeley's proposal to [[DARPA]] that led to 4.0 and its successors		* [https://www.jslite.net/notes/joy2.pdf Proposal for enhancement of UNIX on the VAX] - Berkeley's proposal to [[DARPA]] that led to 4.0 and its successors
		+	* [https://www.jslite.net/notes/joy1.pdf An architecture for Interprocess Communication in UNIX]
	* [https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - a crisp, clear history of the BSD effort		* [https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - a crisp, clear history of the BSD effort