(BSD) A family of
Unix versions developed
by
Bill Joy and others at the
University of California at Berkeley, originally for the
DEC VAX and
PDP-11
computers, and subsequently ported to almost all modern
general-purpose computers. BSD Unix incorporates
paged
virtual memory,
TCP/IP networking enhancements and many
other features.
BSD UNIX 4.0 was released on 1980-10-19. The BSD versions
(4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) and the commercial versions derived from
them (
SunOS,
ULTRIX, Mt. Xinu,
Dynix) held the
technical lead in the Unix world until
AT&T's successful
standardisation efforts after about 1986, and are still widely
popular.
See also
Berzerkeley,
USG Unix.