4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix

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4.3 BSD
4.3 BSDuwisc.png
Logging into a 4.3 BSD Uwisc system
Type: Multi-tasking, multi-user
Creator: CSRG, University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin & SUN.
Architecture: VAX, theoretically portable
This Version: 4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin UNIX
Date Released: 1987


The 4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix release of 4.3 BSD dates to around Jan 20 1987. It never seems to have made mainstream use, and I can only find a single machine that ran it, Eedsp. This release is significant in that it incorporated the NFS code from SunOS, and a few bits of SunOS to flesh it out. A few people from the University of Wisconsin went on to work for Sun Microsystems, so it's no surprise the amount of Sun source in this release. This release is only for VAXen and runs under SIMH's VAX-11/780 emulator just fine.

How do I get this to run?

The tape image portions can be found on the TUHS archives, below.

Installation instructions

SIMH installation instructions for 4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix can be found here

What Runs?

For its age, a surprisingly lot runs on this 4.3BSD derived operating system. So far I've been able to build and run the following:

See also

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