Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:07:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net>, Joseph Stein <joes@shasta.wstein.com> Cc: Tony86cal@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <19990418140714.D37994@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <99041800060103.00468@Nikki.ibm.net>; from Michael G. on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 11:59:52PM -0400 References: <199904180350.UAA03820@shasta.wstein.com> <99041800060103.00468@Nikki.ibm.net>
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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
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