Difference between revisions of "Computer Systems Research Group"

From Computer History Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
m
Line 6: Line 6:
  
 
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].
  
 
== Releases ==
 
== Releases ==

Revision as of 21:33, 21 April 2010

The CSRG is better known as 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.

Releases

The CSRG put together the following releases:

  • 3.0 BSD - Derived from 32v, includign 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.
  • 4.2 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.

386 BSD This is the first Net/2 derived OS that then spawned the Net/FreeBSD os's.


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.