Berkley Software Distribution | Techday, March 9th
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system created at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s. It was originally developed and distributed to universities and research labs in the US and other countries. The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was first released on this TECHDAY in history, on March 9th 1978. It originally took the code for the Unix operating system and improved on it. In the 80s, many technology company founders and engineers adopted BSD in the form of proprietary Unix variants due to its permissive licensing and familiarity.
Although these proprietary BSD derivatives were largely superseded by UNIX SVR4 and OSF/1 in the 1990s, later releases provided the basis for a number of new open-source operating systems. These include FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin and TrueOS. These were in use by operating systems, including Apple’s macOS and iOS. FreeBSD was to create the operating system for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.
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