From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 23 12:22:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09597 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:22:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09589 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:22:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id VAA21700; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:22:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:22:00 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Dr. Buchacher Anton" Cc: Subject: Re: What does BSD stand for? References: <01bd6eeb$0b2843c0$489d53c1@multimedia> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 23 Apr 1998 21:21:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Dr. Buchacher Anton"'s message of "Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:07:21 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Dr. Buchacher Anton" writes: > My question is simple: What does BSD stand for? > Thanks a lot. Depending on whom you ask, "Berkely Standard Distribution" or "Berkely Software Distribution". The latter is canonical AFAIK. For more information on the history of the BSDs, see for instance /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree or some of the papers under /usr/share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message