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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!not-for-mail From: eric@fudge.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer) Subject: Re: BSD UNIX release dates X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fudge.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <E4pDII.323@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test51 (15 Jan 97) Organization: The University of Chicago References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970128032616.24268B-100000@dalnet.webmaster.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 05:20:41 GMT Lines: 35 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd:16864 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2056 Josh Gilliam <soil@webmaster.com> wrote: > I'd appreciate if anyone could add, complete, or edit the following: > Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) UNIX releases: Here's what I can find. RUR means from Doug McIlroy's "Research Unix Reader"; QCU is Peter Salus's _A Quarter Century of Unix_; 4.2 and 4.4 are the 4.2 and 4.4BSD manuals, respectively. Nov. 3, 1971 First Edition RUR June 12, 1972 Second Edition RUR February, 1973 Third Edition RUR November, 1973 Fourth Edition RUR June, 1974 Fifth Edition RUR May, 1975 Sixth Edition RUR March 9, 1978 BSD QCU 1978 2BSD QCU Oct or Nov '78 32V QCU January, 1979 Seventh Edition RUR December, 1979 3BSD 4.2 November, 1980 4.0BSD 4.2 June, 1981 4.1BSD 4.2 January, 1982 2.8.1BSD QCU September, 1983 4.2BSD QCU \__ ??? March, 1984 4.2BSD 4.2 / February, 1985 Eighth Edition RUR June, 1986 4.3BSD QCU June, 1988 4.3 Tahoe QCU June, 1990 4.3 Reno QCU Nov, 1988 Net1 QCU June, 1991 Net2 QCU June, 1993 4.4BSD QCU \___ ??? April, 1994 4.4BSD 4.4 / Eric