From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 21:39:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D92C14EF3 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA11013; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:07:17 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA39643; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:07:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990418140714.D37994@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:07:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Michael G." , Joseph Stein Cc: Tony86cal@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question References: <199904180350.UAA03820@shasta.wstein.com> <99041800060103.00468@Nikki.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <99041800060103.00468@Nikki.ibm.net>; from Michael G. on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 11:59:52PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 17 April 1999 at 23:59:52 -0400, Michael G. wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Joseph Stein wrote: >> Michael G. allegedly wrote: >>> Berkeley Software Design >> >> Matter of semantics, but I believe that it is Berkeley Software >> Distribution. > > Hmmm could be..let me take a look.. > > The Book "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating > System" says Design for BSDI BSDI isn't BSD. > and Greg Lehey's book says Distribution (for BSD). >...ok I'll buy that..must have been retranslated for FreeBSD. Uh-uh. It's always been Distribution. It started with Bill Joy's distribution of sofware written at Berkeley in the late 70s. Unfortunately, I've been checking through the READ_ME files in these distributions, but none of them say what BSD stands for. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message