Search Results: 4BSD


History of the Berkeley Software Distribution
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 15:32:59

Memory Unix), and BSD kernel images were normally called /vmunix until 4.4BSD. The success of 3BSD was a major factor in the Defense Advanced Research...

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Procfs
Selasa, 2026-06-16 06:57:49

with different architectures and byte order to debug others' processes. 4.4BSD cloned its implementation of /proc from Plan 9.[citation needed] As of...

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Berkeley Software Distribution
Minggu, 2026-07-19 04:36:22

Memory Unix), and BSD kernel images were normally called /vmunix until 4.4BSD. After 4.3BSD was released in June 1986, it was determined that BSD would...

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Morris worm
Jumat, 2026-07-17 11:47:47

times. The main body of the worm can infect only DEC VAX machines running 4BSD, alongside Sun-3 systems. A portable C "grappling hook" component of the...

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File attribute
Senin, 2026-06-29 04:25:12

file type (regular file, directory, or some other special kind). In 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite, files and directories (folders) accepted four attributes that...

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Curses (programming library)
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:46:41

character-cell terminals (e.g., VT100). ncurses is the approved replacement for 4.4BSD classic curses.[citation needed] Using curses, programmers are able to write...

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NetBSD
Selasa, 2026-08-04 15:28:05

release, NetBSD 1.0, was made in October 1994, and being updated with 4.4BSD-Lite sources, it was free of all legally encumbered 4.3BSD Net/2 code. Also...

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Comparison of BSD operating systems
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:50:45

and 4.4BSD-Lite, by various routes. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD started life in 1993, initially derived from 386BSD, but in 1994 migrated to a 4.4BSD-Lite...

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Unix-like
Jumat, 2026-07-31 01:45:53

unrestricted substitutes for UNIX emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, including 4.4BSD, Linux, and Minix. Some of these have in turn been the basis for commercial...

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History of email
Selasa, 2026-04-28 03:12:12

(CBBS) was a public dial-up BBS. 1979 ARPANET delivermail was shipped with 4BSD. MH Message Handling System developed at The RAND Corporation provided several...

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Marshall Kirk McKusick
Minggu, 2026-08-16 20:15:49

Bostic, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, April 1996, ISBN 0-201-54979-4. French...

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Mach (kernel)
Rabu, 2026-06-24 00:38:47

component. The Mach virtual memory management system was also adopted in 4.4BSD by the BSD developers at CSRG, and appears in modern BSD-derived Unix systems...

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Env
Selasa, 2026-03-17 15:42:40

Richard Mlynarik, David MacKenzie, and Assaf Gordon. It first appeared in 4.4BSD, and is a part of POSIX.1 (with the -i option only). This version has been...

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Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
Jumat, 2026-08-14 05:09:52

debate discusses alternatives to Linux and MINIX, such as GNU (Hurd) and 4.4BSD. Tanenbaum suggested the former in his first post, stating that unlike Linux...

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TCP/IP Illustrated
Kamis, 2026-07-16 05:01:16

500 illustrations, combined with 15,000 lines of actual code from the 4.4BSD-Lite release, serves as concrete examples of the concepts covered in Volume...

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JOVE
Jumat, 2025-08-01 12:38:28

distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BSD, 4.3BSD-Reno and 4.4BSD-Lite2. As of 2022, the latest development release of JOVE is version 4.17...

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UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Rabu, 2026-08-19 00:58:39

settlement that was reached in February 1994. The salient points were: 4.4BSD-Lite to be released containing no disputed files. University to encourage...

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Keith Bostic (software engineer)
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:49:17

Berkeley. He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases. Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to...

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Single UNIX Specification
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:04:59

macOS, has behavior that can be set to comply with UNIX 03. Darwin uses a 4.4BSD-derived pax command, which lacks multibyte support for filenames.[citation...

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Lex (software)
Rabu, 2026-04-15 15:57:50

Plan 9 Platform Cross-platform Type Command License Plan 9: MIT License Repository minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD%2Fusr%2Fsrc%2Fcmd%2Flex...

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Nice (Unix)
Minggu, 2026-07-19 22:05:51

November 1973; 52 years ago (1973-11) Operating system Unix and Unix-like Platform Cross-platform Type Command License coreutils: GNU GPL v3 4.4BSD: BSD License...

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Lites
Minggu, 2024-10-20 18:49:20

Lites is a discontinued Unix-like operating system, based on 4.4BSD and the Mach microkernel. Specifically, Lites is a multi-threaded server and emulation...

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Chattr
Senin, 2026-05-11 00:41:47

the ls command are used instead. The chflags command first appeared in 4.4BSD. Solaris has no commands specifically meant to manipulate them. chmod and...

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BSD licenses
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 10:42:19

4-clause license, this license can be found in 4.3BSD-Reno, Net/2, and 4.4BSD-Alpha. Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holder>. All rights reserved. Redistribution...

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List of POSIX commands
Senin, 2026-06-29 19:27:47

ownership PDP-7 UNIX cksum Filesystem Mandatory Report file checksum and size 4.4BSD cmp Filesystem Mandatory Compare two files Version 1 AT&T UNIX comm Text...

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Basename
Selasa, 2026-02-03 11:57:40

version of POSIX and the Single Unix Specification. It first appeared in 4.4BSD. The version in GNU Core Utilities was written by David MacKenzie. The command...

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Fork (system call)
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 16:05:07

systems running on constrained hardware and real-time systems. While the 4.4BSD implementation got rid of the vfork implementation, causing vfork to have...

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NextBSD
Minggu, 2026-07-19 13:52:35

operating system. NeXT NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, based on the Mach kernel and 4BSD; the ancestor of Mac OS X (macOS) Apple Inc.'s Darwin, the core of macOS...

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Version 7 Unix
Jumat, 2026-08-14 01:15:10

the direct ancestor of UNIX System V[disputed – discuss] and the popular 4BSD family of Unix systems. The group at the University of Wollongong that had...

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Henry Spencer
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:13:14

Perl. Circa 1993, Spencer donated a second version of his RE library to 4.4BSD, following the POSIX standard for regular expressions. Spencer was technical...

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Nvi
Senin, 2026-04-06 15:50:16

originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD). Due to licensing disputes between AT&T and the Computer Systems Research...

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MachTen
Minggu, 2026-06-28 08:45:59

operating system from Tenon Intersystems. It is based on the Mach kernel, 4.4BSD, GNU programming tools, and the X Window System. It runs not natively but...

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GNU Hurd
Rabu, 2026-07-22 20:14:58

Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, their early plan was to adapt the 4.4BSD-Lite kernel and, in hindsight, "It is now perfectly obvious to me that this...

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NeXTSTEP
Jumat, 2026-07-03 06:39:04

primarily consisting of bug fixes. Rhapsody October 13, 1997 CD-ROM i386, PPC 4.4BSD Released following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, serving as the transitional...

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Portable C Compiler
Selasa, 2026-08-04 07:33:13

in Seventh Edition Unix and shipped with BSD Unix until the release of 4.4BSD in 1994, when it was replaced by the GNU C Compiler. It was very influential...

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FreeBSD
Jumat, 2026-08-14 16:33:45

the newer 4.4BSD-Lite2 sources. Although not involved in the litigation, it was suggested to FreeBSD that it should also move to 4.4BSD-Lite2. FreeBSD...

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Dig (command)
Minggu, 2026-06-14 20:38:24

Linux (DNS Lookup)". linuxize.com. 2020-02-26. Retrieved 2024-03-07. "dig (4.4BSD of 1990)". man.freebsd.org. Retrieved 2024-05-17. "remove unnecessary acronym...

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Unix File System
Jumat, 2026-04-24 07:09:23

has extensions for large files and large disks and other features. In 4.4BSD and BSD Unix systems derived from it, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and...

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Groff (software)
Senin, 2025-01-13 15:52:55

free, open source, and UNIX derived operating systems such as Linux and 4.4BSD derivatives — notably because troff macros are used to create man pages,...

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QNX
Senin, 2026-06-29 07:31:57

into QNX 2.0. 2.21 1989 QNX 2.21 4.0 1990 QNX 4.0 4.1 1994 Elements of 4.4BSD into QNX 4.1 4.2 1995 QNX 4.2 4.22 1995 QNX 4.22 4.24 1995 QNX/Neutrino 1...

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Sleepycat Software
Selasa, 2026-07-21 21:48:19

software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4.4BSD Unix. Developers from that project founded Sleepycat in 1996 to provide commercial...

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BSD Daemon
Rabu, 2026-05-20 06:16:42

System. Lasseter drew a somewhat lesser-known running BSD Daemon for the 4.4BSD version of the book in 1994. From 1994 to 2004, the NetBSD project used artwork...

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C string handling
Senin, 2026-06-29 08:11:57

out a buffer. Deprecated by memset and removed in POSIX.1-2008. memccpy 4.4BSD, SVID4, POSIX.1-2001, C23 Copies between two non-overlapping buffers, stopping...

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Kernfs (BSD)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 23:02:04

system information by accessing virtual files. kernfs first appeared in 4.4BSD, and NetBSD 6.0 continues to use kernfs by default while mounting it at the...

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Berkeley DB
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 06:03:31

Berkeley DB itself was first released in 1991 and later included with 4.4BSD. In 1996 Netscape requested that the authors of Berkeley DB improve and extend...

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Rm (Unix)
Rabu, 2026-07-22 15:08:55

g., the BSDs (such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and macOS) derived from 4.4BSD-Lite2. The version in GNU Core Utilities was written by Paul Rubin, David...

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UnionFS
Senin, 2025-10-20 11:46:19

Pendry, Jan-Simon; McKusick, Marshall Kirk (January 1995). "Union Mounts in 4.4BSD-Lite". USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings. Retrieved 17 July 2017...

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Man page
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:15:27

to write man pages for programs lacking one. The modern descendants of 4.4BSD also distribute man pages as one of the primary forms of system documentation...

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Computer Systems Research Group
Kamis, 2025-11-27 03:02:35

settlement in 1994, CSRG distributed the final version of BSD, called 4.4BSD-Lite2. The group disbanded in 1995. CSRG made significant innovations, advancing...

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/dev/zero
Minggu, 2026-02-01 02:08:28

run-time program bootstrap from SunOS, contributed to CSRG for inclusion in 4.4BSD". TUHS. "HP-UX 8.0.7 install media". 1992-07-22. Beal, Chris. "So what the...

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Caret notation
Rabu, 2026-05-06 02:07:09

caret notation when setting the character-erase and line-kill characters. 4BSD added a ctlecho mode in which control characters are echoed using caret notation;...

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Pax (command)
Selasa, 2026-08-04 04:15:23

was created by Keith Muller in 1992–1993. The version first appeared in 4.4BSD (1995). Pax command appeared in X/Open issue 4 (Single Unix Specification...

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Ultrix
Senin, 2025-10-20 02:03:09

to concentrate on working with the University of California, Berkeley's 4BSD. Berkeley's Bill Joy came to New Hampshire to work with Shannon and Stettner...

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Everything is a file
Senin, 2026-04-20 15:00:15

created by O_TMPFILE in the filesystem (which otherwise cannot be named). 4.4BSD-derived sysctls are key/value mappings managed by the sysctl program, which...

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History of Unix
Rabu, 2026-08-19 03:40:37

naming, and that the release was something of a gamble), Net/2, 4.4BSD, and 4.4BSD-lite. The network code found in these releases is the ancestor of much...

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C standard library
Senin, 2026-08-10 14:58:21

defined in the original standard, many of which first appeared in 1994's 4.4BSD release (the first to be largely developed after the first standard was issued...

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Senin, 2026-08-17 15:56:46

but in a more secure way. Plan 9's union directory architecture inspired 4.4BSD and Linux union file system implementations, although the developers of the...

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Theo de Raadt
Rabu, 2026-07-01 19:25:44

encumbered Net/2-derived source code was replaced with equivalent code from 4.4BSD-lite, in accordance with the USL v BSDi lawsuit settlement. De Raadt played...

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ONTAP
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 00:36:53

stack, networking commands, and low-level startup code from BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite. On June 16, 2006, NetApp released two variants of Data ONTAP, Data...

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Virtual file system
Senin, 2025-12-08 11:40:51

a non-encrypting file system). Heidemann adapted this work for use in 4.4BSD as a part of his thesis research; descendants of this code underpin the file...

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386BSD
Kamis, 2025-12-18 01:22:08

Net/2 from the University of California, and a subsequent release (1993, 4.4BSD-Lite) was made by the university to correct this issue. However, 386BSD,...

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Vi (text editor)
Rabu, 2026-07-29 17:40:07

Bostic wanted a "bug for bug compatible" replacement for Joy's vi for 4.4BSD-Lite. Using Kirkendall's Elvis (version 1.8) as a starting point, Bostic...

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List of BSD operating systems
Minggu, 2026-08-09 19:09:58

RetroBSD that also supports STM32F4 ARM devices. LiteBSD LiteBSD is a port of 4.4BSD Unix adapted for embedded systems with memory mapping with paging support...

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File-system permissions
Kamis, 2026-07-23 00:25:59

OS's "Protected"/"Locked" attribute as the "user immutable" flag in the 4.4BSD flags field. File Allocation Table (original version) has a per-file read-only...

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Timeline of free and open-source software
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 00:10:58

dedicated to Linux. 1994, March BSD 4.4BSD-Lite was released that no longer require a USL source license. 1995, June BSD 4.4BSD-Lite 2 Basis of modern BSDs 1995...

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Comparison of file systems
Jumat, 2026-08-21 21:57:30

1993 Linux, Hurd Xiafs Q. Frank Xia 1993 Linux UFS1 Kirk McKusick 1994 4.4BSD XFS SGI 1994 IRIX HFS IBM 1994 MVS/ESA (now z/OS) FAT16X Microsoft 1995 MS-DOS...

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Union mount
Kamis, 2025-12-25 23:28:56

attempts, Plan 9 and the stackable file systems in Spring (Sun, 1994). 4.4BSD implements the stack-of-directories approach outlined above. As in Plan 9...

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Berkeley Automounter
Selasa, 2025-05-27 16:17:32

Automounter (or amd) is a computer automounter daemon which first appeared in 4.4BSD in 1994. The original Berkeley automounter was created by Jan-Simon Pendry...

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John Quarterman
Sabtu, 2024-11-30 04:43:10

Co-author with Smoot Carl-Mitchell. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, April 1996, ISBN 0-201-54979-4, Co-author...

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Delivermail
Senin, 2025-12-01 03:27:58

Sendmail, 3rd Edition by Bryan Costales, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002 "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol". Retrieved 2022-08-04. delivermail 4BSD source code v t e...

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List of archive formats
Selasa, 2026-08-04 03:03:49

Archive (shar and makeself) .shar, .run James Gosling, Alan Hewett 1994 4.4BSD Original No Yes, commonly MD5 Partial Partial Partial arbitrary (typically...

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Source Code Control System
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 09:28:25

sourceforge.net/PWB.html AT&T Announcement for SCCSv4 SCCS what(1) manpage from 4BSD, 1980, on the website of The Unix Heritage Society Archived 2005-08-31 at...

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Sysctl
Rabu, 2025-11-12 13:11:56

tunable parameters when the system boots). This feature first appeared in 4.4BSD. It has the advantage over hardcoded constants that changes to the parameters...

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Mike Muuss
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 15:26:26

honoring 180 individuals, including Muuss, who contributed to the CSRG's 4.4BSD-Lite release. Muuss is mentioned in two books, The Cuckoo's Egg (ISBN 0-7434-1146-3)...

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List of file systems
Selasa, 2026-08-04 03:03:53

file system, provided in Linux, OS/2, and AIX. Supports extents. LFS – 4.4BSD implementation of a log-structured file system MFS – Macintosh File System...

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TCP congestion control
Jumat, 2026-08-21 03:20:09

subsequently released to the public as Networking Release 2 and later 4.4BSD-Lite. While both consider retransmission timeout (RTO) and duplicate ACKs...

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Michael J. Karels
Minggu, 2025-12-14 17:06:31

honoring 180 individuals, including Karels, who contributed to the CSRG's 4.4BSD-Lite release. His face appears on the 7 of Spades on the USENIX 1994 Playing...

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HP 9000
Jumat, 2026-08-14 11:34:51

to the HP 9000 as HPBSD; the resulting support code was later added to 4.4BSD. Its modern variants NetBSD and OpenBSD also support various HP 9000 models...

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Bob Fabry
Minggu, 2026-05-31 08:24:31

limited because it started with software licensed from AT&T. In 1980, the 4BSD  distribution was released. During its nine-month lifetime, nearly 150 copies...

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Berkeley Software Design
Selasa, 2026-08-11 10:50:10

base future releases of the product, now called BSD/OS, on the CSRG's 4.4BSD-Lite release which was declared free of any USL intellectual property. Rob...

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Ptrace
Senin, 2026-05-11 10:05:53

allows permitted processes direct access to the memory of another process - 4.4BSD followed, and the use of /proc for debugger support was inherited by Solaris...

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FreeBSD version history
Minggu, 2026-07-12 23:20:25

improved but a decision was made to ship the 7.0 release with the older 4BSD scheduler, leaving ULE as a kernel compile-time tunable. In FreeBSD 7.1 ULE...

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List of log-structured file systems
Senin, 2026-01-05 01:28:21

system in 1992. BSD-LFS, an implementation by Margo Seltzer was added to 4.4BSD, and was later ported to 386BSD. It lacked support for snapshots. It was...

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Rhapsody (operating system)
Selasa, 2026-07-21 08:01:00

Rhapsody's public release. Rhapsody runs on a modified Mach 2.5 kernel and 4.4BSD Unix environment. Atop that were the threaded, object-oriented Yellow Box...

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Writer's Workbench
Jumat, 2025-12-26 20:06:56

look utility had not yet been ported to GNU, but its implementation from 4.4BSD-Lite is available as free software, for example via Debian. LanguageTool...

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UNIX/32V
Selasa, 2025-09-02 14:34:28

(3BSD) in 1979. Thanks to the popularity of the two systems' successors, 4BSD and UNIX System V, UNIX/32V is an antecedent of nearly all modern Unix systems...

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BSD disklabel
Senin, 2024-10-07 21:11:46

manual pages, section 5. "Using disklabel". OpenBSD FAQ. "disklabel(5)". 4.4BSD Programmer's Manual. Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved...

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Tput
Senin, 2026-05-11 01:09:16

ISBN 0-937175-22-6. Archived from the original on 2026-01-02. Retrieved 2026-02-03. "3BSD/4BSD versions". The Unix Heritage Society. 2000-06-25. Retrieved 2008-04-20. "CVS...

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Termcap
Jumat, 2026-02-13 12:18:30

to put the most frequently used entries near the beginning of the file. 4.4BSD based implementations of termcap store the terminal description in a hashed...

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Ken Arnold
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:49:20

Undergraduates Association), and made many contributions to the 2BSD and 4BSD Berkeley Unix distributions, including: curses and termcap: a hardware-independent...

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POSIX terminal interface
Kamis, 2026-07-23 20:38:33

although it did not support job control or the cooked-mode enhancements of 4BSD. For example, it replaced the "cooked", "cbreak", and "raw" modes of Seventh...

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Getopt
Kamis, 2026-07-30 06:39:20

getsubopt. It parses a string of comma-separated sub-options. It appeared in 4.4BSD (1995). getopt is a system dependent function, and its behavior depends on...

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MacMach
Minggu, 2026-05-31 05:02:37

settlement of the USL v. BSDi lawsuit and the release of unencumbered 4.4BSD-Lite, the MacMach project was abandoned.[citation needed] However, CMU had...

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Elvis (text editor)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 06:02:20

Bostic wanted a “bug for bug compatible” replacement for Joy's vi for 4.4BSD-Lite. Using Kirkendall's Elvis (version 1.8) as a starting point, Bostic...

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