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| caption = Logging into a 4 BSD system
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| caption = Logging into a 4BSD system
| name = 4 BSD
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| name = 4BSD
 
| creator = CSRG
 
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| current version = 4.0 (1980)
 
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4.0 BSD improves upon the [[3 BSD]] release with curses, better job control, csh, and "reliable signals"..
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'''4BSD''' from [[Computer Systems Research Group|CSRG]] at Berkeley improves upon the [[3BSD]] release with curses, better job control, csh, and "reliable signals".
  
 
== How do I get this to run?! ==
 
== How do I get this to run?! ==
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== What Runs? ==  
 
== What Runs? ==  
  
Not very much.... 4 BSD does not provide any modern networking, and the C compiler is far from ANSI.
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Not very much.... 4 BSD does not provide any modern networking, and the C [[compiler]] is far from ANSI.
Also keep in mind that 4 BSD does *NOT* include any TCP/IP networking...  It's worth noting that the [[zork]] binary made it's appearence in this version of BSD Unix..
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Also keep in mind that 4 BSD does *NOT* include any [[TCP/IP]] networking...  It's worth noting that the [[zork]] binary made it's appearence in this version of BSD Unix..
  
 
== games ==
 
== games ==
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backgammon  chess      hangman    quiz        zork
 
backgammon  chess      hangman    quiz        zork
 
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==External links==
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* [https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD 4BSD] - distro at [[The Unix Heritage Society|TUHS]]
  
 
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Revision as of 12:33, 22 June 2022


4BSD
40bsd.png
Logging into a 4BSD system
Type: Multitasking, multiuser
Creator: CSRG
Architecture: VAX, theoretically portable
This Version: 4.0 (1980)
Date Released: 1980


4BSD from CSRG at Berkeley improves upon the 3BSD release with curses, better job control, csh, and "reliable signals".

How do I get this to run?!

You can follow the guide Installing 4.0 BSD on SIMH, which was derived from the excellent work of Naoki Hamada here for more information.

There is also the historical document Setting up the Fourth Berkeley Software Tape.

Currently if you enable the dz ttys you'll get a bunch of 'ZERO VECTOR UBA RESET: dz up 'errors... So this isn't very usfull if you were hoping for some kind of multi user system. The only 'good' thing is the 32v idle in simh-3.8-0 works well on this version.

What Runs?

Not very much.... 4 BSD does not provide any modern networking, and the C compiler is far from ANSI. Also keep in mind that 4 BSD does *NOT* include any TCP/IP networking... It's worth noting that the zork binary made it's appearence in this version of BSD Unix..

games

aardvark    banner      ching       lib         snake
adventure   bcd         cribbage    mille       snscore
advfiles    bogdict     fish        monop       trek
arithmetic  boggle      fortune     number      wump
backgammon  chess       hangman     quiz        zork

External links