3BSD

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3 BSD/VM
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Logging into a 3 BSD/VM system
Type: Multitasking, multiuser
Creator: CSRG
Architecture: VAX, theoretically portable
This Version: 3.0 (1979)
Date Released: 1979


3.0 BSD was 32v with a better virtual memory system, that went from 32'v swapping , to a paged system. Additionally all of the BSD tools from 2.9 BSD on the PDP-11 were ported over, including vi.


How do I get this to run?!

Right now, make sure you have the VAX-11/780 emulator from SIMH 3.8-0 or higher, then go to http://zazie.tom-yam.or.jp/starunix/ for more information.

What Runs?

Not very much.... 3 BSD does not provide any modern networking, and the C compiler is far from ANSI.