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Subject: Re: UNIX System
To: edd@aic.net
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:46:52 +0200 (MET DST)
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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