Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:46:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: edd@aic.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: UNIX System Message-ID: <199605150646.IAA06695@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199605130942.NAA09869@aic.net> from "edd@aic.net" at May 13, 96 01:42:16 pm
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edd@aic.net writes:
>
>>>> still wondering, however, whether it may not be called "Berkeley
>>>> UNIX".
>
> I think there are no such thing as "Berkeley UNIX". If you refer to
> BSD, you have to write BSD (and indicate release),
> not UNIX. Because "UNIX" originally referred
> to System V, again, IMHO.
There are at least two points here:
1. My question wasn't "is there any such thing as Berkeley UNIX", but
whether it could be used as a trademark independently of UNIX.
2. Berkeley UNIX (which, as other correspondents have observed, does
have a precedent) predates System V by quite some time. According
to the original daemon book, System V was first announced/released
in 1983. 1BSD was released in 1977.
Greg
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