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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>BSD</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="brute-force-and-ignorance.html" title="brute force and ignorance"/><link rel="next" href="BSOD.html" title="BSOD"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">BSD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="brute-force-and-ignorance.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="BSOD.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="BSD"/><dt xmlns="" id="BSD"><b>BSD</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/B<>S<EFBFBD>D/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [abbreviation for ‘Berkeley Software Distribution’] a
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family of <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> versions for the
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<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> and
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<a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> developed by Bill Joy and others at
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<a href="Berzerkeley.html"><i class="glossterm">Berzerkeley</i></a> starting around 1977, incorporating
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paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancements, and many other
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features. The BSD versions (4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) and the commercial versions
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derived from them (SunOS, ULTRIX, and Mt. Xinu) held the technical lead in
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the Unix world until AT&T's successful standardization efforts after
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about 1986; descendants including Free/Open/NetBSD, BSD/OS and MacOS X are
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still widely popular. Note that BSD versions going back to 2.9 are often
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referred to by their version numbers alone, without the BSD prefix. See
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