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Subject: RE: BSD Stand For
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>> River will purchase the commercial version of the BSD UNIX-based OS (BSD/OST)
>> and development tools. Wind River will also support FreeBSD, a collaborative
>> open source development effort, to advance BSD technologies.
>
>BSDi and BSD are two different things.  BSD stands for "Berkeley
>Software Distribution".  All else is jut plain wrong.  BSD[Ii] stood
>for Berkeley Software Design Inc., but I don't know what that has to
>do with the matter.

Conceeded...  though retraining of the monkey may take time.

>Note that this press release is pretty inaccurate anyway.  "World?s"?
>BSDi did *not* supply BSD UNIX; that was made abundantly clear at the
>end of the AT&T lawsuit.  And the operating system was called BSD/OS,
>not BSD/OST.

cut and paste from Wind River's site..  did not bother to proof it for them  :)

Think there are enough posts that google should pull up the answer in spades for
anyone else?

Dave


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