From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 14:29:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12845 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12814 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA19257; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:29:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jeremy Shaffner cc: Frank Pawlak , D Arey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jeremy Shaffner wrote: > > > > > What does BSD stand for? > > > > > > Berkeley Standard Distribution > > > > > > > Doug, I hate to correct you as you are right about so many things. But this > > time I believe that you maybe in error. Am looking at page 8 in The Design and > > Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, and I quote. "Software from > > Berkeley is released in Berkeley Software Distributions (BSD)-for example, as > > 4.3BSD." > > Prolly just a brain freeze. I've heard it both ways. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message