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1The Unix system family tree / BSD history chart 2----------------------------------------------- 3 4First Edition (V1) 5 | 6Second Edition (V2) 7 | 8Third Edition (V3) 9 | 10Fourth Edition (V4) 11 | 12Fifth Edition (V5) 13 | 14Sixth Edition (V6) -----* 15 \ | 16 \ | 17 \ | 18Seventh Edition (V7) | 19 \ | 20 \ 1BSD 21 32V | 22 \ 2BSD---------------* 23 \ / | 24 \ / | 25 \/ | 26 3BSD | 27 | | 28 4.0BSD 2.7.9BSD 29 | | 30 *------ 4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD 31 / | | 32Eighth Edition | 2.8.1BSD 33 | | | 34 | 4.1aBSD -----------\ | 35 | | \ | 36 | 4.1bBSD \ | 37 | | \ | 38 | 4.1cBSD --------------> 2.9BSD 39 | | | 40 | | 2.9BSD-Seismo 41 | | | 42 +----<--- 4.2BSD 2.9.1BSD 43 | | | 44 +----<--- 4.3BSD -------------> 2.10BSD 45 | | / | 46Ninth Edition | / 2.10.1BSD 47 | 4.3BSD Tahoe-----+ | 48 | | \ | 49 | | \ | 50 v | 2.11BSD 51Tenth Edition | | 52 | 2.11BSD rev #366 53 4.3BSD NET/1 | 54 | v 55 4.3BSD Reno 56 | 57 *---------- 4.3BSD NET/2 -------------------+-------------* 58 | | | | 59386BSD 0.0 | | | 60 | | | | 61386BSD 0.1 ------------>+ | BSDI 1.0 62 | \ | 4.4BSD Alpha | 63 | 386BSD 1.0 | | | 64 | | 4.4BSD | 65 | | / | | 66 | | 4.4BSD-Encumbered | | 67 | NetBSD 0.8 | | 68 | | | | 69FreeBSD 1.0 NetBSD 0.9 | | 70 | | .----- 4.4BSD Lite --> BSDI 2.0 71FreeBSD 1.1 | / / | | 72 | | / / | BSDI 2.0.1 73FreeBSD 1.1.5 .---|--------' / | | 74 | / | / 4.4BSD Lite2 -> BSDI 2.1 75FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 / | / / | | \ | 76 | / NetBSD 1.0 <-' / | | \ | 77 | / | / | | `-BSDI 3.0 78FreeBSD 2.0 <--' | FreeBSD 3.0 | | | 79 | \ NetBSD 1.3 | v 80FreeBSD 2.0.5 \ OpenBSD 2.3 81 | \ 82 | \ 83FreeBSD 2.1 | 84 | | NetBSD 1.1 ------. 85 | FreeBSD 2.1.5 | \ 86 | | NetBSD 1.2 \ 87 | FreeBSD 2.1.6 | \ OpenBSD 2.0 88 | | | \ | 89 | FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 | \ | 90 | | | \ | 91 | FreeBSD 2.1.7 | | | 92 | | | NetBSD 1.2.1 | 93 | FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 | | 94 | | | 95 | | | 96 *-FreeBSD 2.2 | | 97 | \ | | 98 | FreeBSD 2.2.1 | | 99 | | | | 100 | FreeBSD 2.2.2 | OpenBSD 2.1 101 | | NetBSD 1.3 | 102 | FreeBSD 2.2.5 | \ | 103 | | | NetBSD 1.3.1 OpenBSD 2.2 104 | v | | | 105 | FreeBSD 2.2.6 | | OpenBSD 2.3 106 | | | NetBSD 1.3.2 | 107 | v | | | 108 | FreeBSD 2.2.7 | | | 109 | | | | | 110 | v | | | 111 | FreeBSD 2.2.8 | | | 112 | | | | 113 | | | OpenBSD 2.4 114FreeBSD 3.0 | | | 115 | | NetBSD 1.3.3 | 116 *---FreeBSD 3.1 | | 117 | | | | 118 | FreeBSD 3.2 NetBSD 1.4 OpenBSD 2.5 119 | | | | 120 | FreeBSD 3.3 | | 121 | | | OpenBSD 2.6 122 | FreeBSD 3.4 | | 123 | | | 124 | | | 125FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT | | 126 | v v 127 v 128 129 130Time 131---------------- 132 133Time tolerance +/- 6 month, depend on which book/article you read; if 134it was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape. 135 136[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, 137 and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of 138 the 4.4BSD Operating System. 139[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape. 140[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. 141[U25] Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. 142[USE] Usenet announcement. 143[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz. 144 Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software 145 Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983. 146[KB] Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources, 147 Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987. 148[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement. 149 comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988. 150[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11. 151[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The. 152[NBD] NetBSD Project, The. 153[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The. 154[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail 155 156 157Multics 1965 158Unix Summer 1969 159 DEC PDP-7 160First Edition 1971-11-03 [QCU] 161 DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler 162Second Edition 1972-06-12 [QCU] 163 10 Unix installations 164Third Edition 1973-02-xx [QCU] 165 Pipes, 16 installations 166Fourth Edition 1973-11-xx [QCU] 167 rewriting in C effected, 168 above 30 installations 169Fifth Edition 1974-06-xx [QCU] 170 above 50 installations 171Sixth Edition 1975-05-xx [QCU] 172 port to DEC Vax 173Seventh Edition 1979-01-xx [QCU] 174 first portable Unix 175Eight Edition 1985-02-xx [QCU] 176 VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr] 177 descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr] 178 descended from 4.1 BSD [44B] 179 scooping-out and replacement of the character-device 180 and networking part by the streams mechanism 181 182Ninth Edition 1986-09-xx [QCU] 183Tenth Edition 1989-10-xx [QCU] 184 1851BSD late 1977 186 1978-03-09 [QCU] 187 PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1) 188 30 free copies of 1BSD sent out 189 35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU] 1902BSD mid 1978 [QCU] 191 75 2BSD tapes shipped 1922.7.9BSD ?? [SMS] 1932.8BSD 1981-07-xx [KSJ] 194 1952.8.1BSD 1982-01-xx [QCU] 196 set of performance improvements 1972.9BSD 1983-07-xx [KSJ] 1982.9.1BSD 1983-11-xx 1992.9BSD-Seismo 1985-08-xx [SMS] 2002.10BSD 1987-04-xx [KKK] 2012.10.1BSD 1989-01-xx [SMS] 2022.11BSD 1992-02-xx [SMS] 2032.11BSD rev #366 1997-02-xx [SMS] 204 20532V 1978-1[01]-xx [QCU] 2063BSD late 1979 [QCU] 207 virtual memory, page replacement, 208 demand paging 2094.0BSD 1980-10-xx 2104.1BSD 1981-06-xx 2114.1aBSD 1982-04-xx 212 alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B] 2134.1bBSD internal release, fast filesystem [44B] 2144.1cBSD late 1982 215 beta release, IPC [44B] 2164.2BSD 1983-09-xx [QCU] 2174.3BSD 1986-06-xx [QCU] 218 1986-04-xx [KB] 2194.3BSD Tahoe 1988-06-xx [QCU] 2204.3BSD NET/1 1988-11-xx [QCU] 2214.3BSD Reno 1990-06-xx [QCU], [DOC] 2224.3BSD NET/2 1991-06-xx [QCU] 223386BSD 0.0 1992-02-xx [DOC] 224386BSD 0.1 1992-07-xx [DOC] 2254.4BSD Alpha 1992-07-07 226NetBSD 0.8 1993-04-19 [NBD] 2274.4BSD 1993-06-01 [USE] 228NetBSD 0.9 1993-08-23 [NBD] 229FreeBSD 1.0 1993-11-xx [FOO] 2304.4BSD Lite 1994-03-01 [USE] 231FreeBSD 1.1 1994-04-xx [FBD] 232FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 1994-07-xx [FBD] 233 supersedes 1.1.5 3 days after release. 234NetBSD 1.0 1994-11-08 [NBD] 235386BSD 1.0 1994-11-12 [USE] 236FreeBSD 2.0 1995-01-xx [FBD] 237FreeBSD 2.0.5 1995-06-xx [FBD] 2384.4BSD Lite Release 2 1995-06-xx [44B] 239 the true final distribution from the CSRG 240NetBSD 1.1 1995-11-26 [NBD] 241FreeBSD 2.1 1995-12-xx [FBD] 242FreeBSD 2.1.5 1996-08-xx [FBD] 243NetBSD 1.2 1996-10-04 [NBD] 244OpenBSD 2.0 1996-10-18 [OBD] 245FreeBSD 2.1.6 1996-12-xx [FBD] 246FreeBSD 2.1.7 1997-02-xx [FBD] 247FreeBSD 2.2.1 1997-04-xx [FBD] 248NetBSD 1.2.1 1997-05-20 [NBD] 249OpenBSD 2.1 1997-06-01 [OBD] 250FreeBSD 2.2.2 1997-06-xx [FBD] 251NetBSD 1.3 1997-09-24 [NBD] 252FreeBSD 2.2.5 1997-11-xx [FBD] 253OpenBSD 2.2 1997-12-01 [OBD] 254FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-xx [FBD] 255OpenBSD 2.3 1998-05-19 [OBD] 256NetBSD 1.3.2 1998-05-24 [NBD] 257FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-xx [FBD] 258FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] 259 FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current, 260 while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which 261 was branched quite some time after 3.0-release 262FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-11-29 [FBD] 263OpenBSD 2.4 1998-12-01 [OBD] 264NetBSD 1.3.3 1998-12-23 [NBD] 265FreeBSD 3.1 1999-02-15 [FBD] 266FreeBSD 3.2 1999-05-17 [FBD] 267OpenBSD 2.5 1999-05-19 [OBD] 268FreeBSD 3.3 1999-09-17 [FBD] 269OpenBSD 2.6 1999-12-01 [OBD] 270FreeBSD 3.4 1999-12-20 [FBD] 271 272 273Bibliography 274------------------------ 275 276Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John 277Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating 278System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1 279 280Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing 281Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5 282 283McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John 284Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating 285System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 286 287Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader. 288 289Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix. 290Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the 291Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993. 292URL: http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/~mgb/papers/bsdrole.html 293 294Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazin, October 1994. 295URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm 296 297Andreas Klemm, Lars K�ller. If you're going to San Francisco ... 298Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff. 299URL: http://www.heise.de 300 301BSD Release Announcements collection. 302URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.ORG/de/ftp/releases/ 303 304BSD Hypertext Man Pages 305http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi 306 307Acknowledgments 308--------------- 309 310Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bugfixes, and finding very old 311original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes. 312 313Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages. 314 315-- 316Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG> 317URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree 318 319$FreeBSD: head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree 55389 2000-01-04 04:31:27Z billf $ 320