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      1 The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD
      2 ---------------------------------------------
      3 
      4 First Edition (V1)
      5      |
      6 Second Edition (V2)
      7      |
      8 Third Edition (V3)
      9      |
     10 Fourth Edition (V4)
     11      |
     12 Fifth Edition (V5)
     13      |
     14 Sixth Edition (V6) -----*
     15        \                |
     16         \               |
     17          \              |
     18 Seventh Edition (V7)    |
     19             \           |
     20              \        1BSD
     21              32V        |
     22                \      2BSD---------------*
     23                 \    /                   |
     24                  \  /                    |
     25                   \/                     |
     26                  3BSD                    |
     27                   |                      |
     28                4.0BSD                2.79BSD
     29                   |                      |
     30                4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD
     31                   |                      |
     32               4.1aBSD -----------\       |
     33                   |                \     |
     34               4.1bBSD                \   |
     35                   |                    \ |
     36       *------ 4.1cBSD --------------> 2.9BSD
     37      /            |                      |
     38 Eighth Edition    |                   2.9BSD-Seismo
     39      |            |                      |
     40      +----<--- 4.2BSD               2.9.1BSD
     41      |            |                      |
     42      +----<--- 4.3BSD -------------> 2.10BSD
     43      |            |               /      |
     44 Ninth Edition     |              / 2.10.1BSD
     45      |         4.3BSD Tahoe-----+        |
     46      |            |              \       |
     47      |            |                \     |
     48      v            |                  2.11BSD
     49 Tenth Edition     |                      |
     50                   |                  2.11BSD rev #430
     51                4.3BSD NET/1              |
     52                   |                      v
     53                4.3BSD Reno
     54                   |
     55    *---------- 4.3BSD NET/2 -------------------+-------------*
     56    |                    |                      |             |
     57 386BSD 0.0              |                      |           BSD/386 ALPHA
     58    |                    |                      |             |
     59 386BSD 0.1 ------------>+                      |           BSD/386 0.3.[13]
     60    |     \              |                  4.4BSD Alpha      |
     61    |     386BSD 1.0     |                      |           BSD/386 0.9.[34]
     62    |                    |                  4.4BSD            |
     63    |                    |                    / |             |
     64    |                    |   4.4BSD-Encumbered  |             |
     65    |                -NetBSD 0.8                |           BSD/386 1.0
     66    |               /    |                      |             |
     67 FreeBSD 1.0 <-----'  NetBSD 0.9                |           BSD/386 1.1
     68    |                    |           .----- 4.4BSD Lite       |
     69 FreeBSD 1.1             |          /   /       |     \       |
     70    |                    |         /   /        |      \      |
     71 FreeBSD 1.1.5       .---|--------'   /         |       \     |
     72    |               /    |           /          |        \    |
     73 FreeBSD 1.1.5.1   /     |          /           |         \   |
     74    |             /   NetBSD 1.0 <-'            |          \  |
     75    |            /       |                      |           \ |
     76 FreeBSD 2.0 <--'        |                      |           BSD/OS 2.0
     77    |                     \                     |             |
     78 FreeBSD 2.0.5             \                    |           BSD/OS 2.0.1
     79    |                 .-----\------------- 4.4BSD Lite2       |
     80    |                 |      \             |  |   |   |       |
     81    |                 | .-----|------Rhapsody |   |   |       |
     82    |                 | |     |        NetBSD 1.3 |   |       |
     83    |                 | |     |           OpenBSD 2.3 |       |
     84    |                 | |     |                BSD/OS 3.0     |
     85 FreeBSD 2.1          | |     |                               |
     86  |   |               | |  NetBSD 1.1 ------.               BSD/OS 2.1
     87  | FreeBSD 2.1.5     | |     |              \                |
     88  |     |             | |  NetBSD 1.2         \             BSD/OS 3.0
     89  | FreeBSD 2.1.6     | |     |  \          OpenBSD 2.0       |
     90  |     |             | |     |   \             |             |
     91  | FreeBSD 2.1.6.1   | |     |    \            |             |
     92  |     |             | |     |     \           |             |
     93  | FreeBSD 2.1.7     | |     |      |          |             |
     94  |     |             | |     |  NetBSD 1.2.1   |             |
     95  | FreeBSD 2.1.7.1   | |     |                 |             |
     96  |                   | |     |                 |             |
     97  |                   | |     |                 |             |
     98  *-FreeBSD 2.2       | |     |                 |             |
     99  |        \          | |     |                 |             |
    100  |     FreeBSD 2.2.1 | |     |                 |             |
    101  |         |         | |     |                 |             |
    102  |     FreeBSD 2.2.2 | |     |             OpenBSD 2.1       |
    103  |         |         | |     |                 |             |
    104  |     FreeBSD 2.2.5 | |     |                 |             |
    105  |         |         | |     |             OpenBSD 2.2       |
    106  |         |         | |  NetBSD 1.3           |             |
    107  |     FreeBSD 2.2.6 | |     |    |            |             |
    108  |         |         | |     | NetBSD 1.3.1    |           BSD/OS 3.1
    109  |         |         | |     |    |        OpenBSD 2.3       |
    110  |         |         | |     | NetBSD 1.3.2    |             |
    111  |     FreeBSD 2.2.7 | |     |    |            |             |
    112  |         |         | |     |    |            |           BSD/OS 4.0
    113  |         v         | |     |    |            |             |
    114  |     FreeBSD 2.2.8 | |     |    |            |             |
    115  |                   | |     |    |        OpenBSD 2.4       |
    116 FreeBSD 3.0 <--------* |     |    v            |             |
    117  |                     |     | NetBSD 1.3.3    |             |
    118  *---FreeBSD 3.1       |     |                 |             |
    119  |       |             |     |                 |           BSD/OS 4.0.1
    120  |   FreeBSD 3.2----*  |  NetBSD 1.4       OpenBSD 2.5       |
    121  |       |          |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    122  |       |          |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    123  |       |          |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    124  |   FreeBSD 3.3    |  |  |  | NetBSD 1.4.1    |             |
    125  |       |          |  |  |  |    |        OpenBSD 2.6       |
    126  |   FreeBSD 3.4    |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    127  |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |           BSD/OS 4.1
    128 FreeBSD 4.0  |      |  |  |  | NetBSD 1.4.2    |             |
    129  |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    130  |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    131  |   FreeBSD 3.5    |  |  |  |    |        OpenBSD 2.7       |
    132  |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    133  |   FreeBSD 3.5.1  |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    134  |                  |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    135  *---FreeBSD 4.1    |  |  |  |    |            |             |
    136  |      |           |  | (?) |    |            |             |
    137  |   FreeBSD 4.1.1  |  |  /  |    |            |             |
    138  |      |           |  | /   |    |            |             |
    139  |   FreeBSD 4.2   Darwin/   | NetBSD 1.4.3    |             |
    140  |      |         Mac OS X   |             OpenBSD 2.8     BSD/OS 4.2
    141  |      |             |      |                 |             |
    142  |      |             |      |                 |             |
    143  |      |           10.0  NetBSD 1.5           |             |
    144  |   FreeBSD 4.3      |      |    |            |             |
    145  |      |             |      |    |        OpenBSD 2.9       |
    146  |      |             |      | NetBSD 1.5.1    |             |
    147  |      |             |      |    |            |             |
    148  |   FreeBSD 4.4-.    |      | NetBSD 1.5.2    |             |
    149  |      |        | Mac OS X  |    |            |             |
    150  |      |        |   10.1    |    |        OpenBSD 3.0       |
    151  |   FreeBSD 4.5 |    |      |    |            |             |
    152  |      |         \   |      |    |            |           BSD/OS 4.3
    153  |   FreeBSD 4.6   \  |      |    |        OpenBSD 3.1       |
    154  |      |           \ |      | NetBSD 1.5.3    |             |
    155  |   FreeBSD 4.6.2 Mac OS X  |                 |             |
    156  |      |            10.2    |                 |             |
    157  |   FreeBSD 4.7      |      |                 |             |
    158  |      |             |   NetBSD 1.6       OpenBSD 3.2       |
    159  |   FreeBSD 4.8      |      |    |            |             |
    160  |      |             |      | NetBSD 1.6.1    |             |
    161  |      |--------.    |      |    |        OpenBSD 3.3     BSD/OS 5.0
    162  |      |         \   |      |    |            |             |
    163  |   FreeBSD 4.9   |  |      |    |        OpenBSD 3.4     BSD/OS 5.1 ISE
    164  |      |          |  |      |    |            |
    165  |      |          |  |      | NetBSD 1.6.2    |
    166  |      |          |  |      |    |            |
    167  |      |          |  |      |    |        OpenBSD 3.5
    168  |      |          |  |      |    v            |
    169  |   FreeBSD 4.10  |  |      |                 |
    170  |      |          |  |      |                 |
    171  |   FreeBSD 4.11  |  |      |                 |
    172  |                 |  |      |                 |
    173  |                  `-|------|-----------------|---------------------.
    174  |                    |      |                 |                      \
    175 FreeBSD 5.0           |      |                 |                       |
    176  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    177 FreeBSD 5.1           |      |                 |                 DragonFly 1.0
    178  |          \         |      |                 |                       |
    179  |           ----- Mac OS X  |                 |                       |
    180  |                   10.3    |                 |                       |
    181 FreeBSD 5.2           |      |                 |                       |
    182  |      |             |      |                 |                       |
    183  |   FreeBSD 5.2.1    |      |                 |                       |
    184  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    185  *-------FreeBSD 5.3  |      |                 |                       |
    186  |           |        |      |             OpenBSD 3.6                 |
    187  |           |        |   NetBSD 2.0           |                       |
    188  |           |        |      | |  |            |                DragonFly 1.2.0
    189  |           |     Mac OS X  | | NetBSD 2.0.2  |                       |
    190  |           |       10.4    | |  |            |                       |
    191  |       FreeBSD 5.4  |      | |  |            |                       |
    192  |           |        |      | |  |        OpenBSD 3.7                 |
    193  |           |        |      | | NetBSD 2.0.3  |                       |
    194  |           |        |      | |  |            |                       |
    195  *--FreeBSD  |        |      | |  v        OpenBSD 3.8                 |
    196  |    6.0    |        |      | |               |                       |
    197  |     |     |        |      |  \              |                       |
    198  |     |     |        |      | NetBSD 2.1      |                       |
    199  |     |     |        |      |                 |                       |
    200  |     |     |        |   NetBSD 3.0           |                       |
    201  |     |     |        |      | |  |            |                DragonFly 1.4.0
    202  |     |     |        |      | |  |        OpenBSD 3.9                 |
    203  |  FreeBSD  |        |      | |  |            |                       |
    204  |    6.1    |        |      | |  |            |                       |
    205  |     |  FreeBSD 5.5 |      | |  |            |                       |
    206  |     |              |      | | NetBSD 3.0.1  |                DragonFly 1.6.0
    207  |     |              |      | |  |            |                       |
    208  |     |              |      | |  |        OpenBSD 4.0                 |
    209  |     |              |      | | NetBSD 3.0.2  |                       |
    210  |     |              |      | NetBSD 3.1      |                       |
    211  | FreeBSD 6.2        |      |                 |                       |
    212  |     |              |      |                 |                DragonFly 1.8.0
    213  |     |              |      |             OpenBSD 4.1                 |
    214  |     |              |      |                 |                DragonFly 1.10.0
    215  |     |           Mac OS X  |                 |                       |
    216  |     |             10.5    |                 |                       |
    217  |     |              |      |             OpenBSD 4.2                 |
    218  |     |              |   NetBSD 4.0           |                       |
    219  | FreeBSD 6.3        |      |    |            |                       |
    220  |            \       |      |    |            |                       |
    221  *--FreeBSD    |      |      |    |            |                DragonFly 1.12.0
    222  |    7.0      |      |      |    |            |                       |
    223  |     |       |      |      |    |        OpenBSD 4.3                 |
    224  |     |       |      |      | NetBSD          |                DragonFly 2.0.0
    225  |     |    FreeBSD   |      |  4.0.1      OpenBSD 4.4                 |
    226  |     |      6.4     |      |                 |                       |
    227  |     |              |      |                 |                       |
    228  |  FreeBSD 7.1       |      |                 |                       |
    229  |     |              |      |                 |                DragonFly 2.2.0
    230  |  FreeBSD 7.2       |   NetBSD 5.0       OpenBSD 4.5                 |
    231  |             \      |      | |    \          |                       |
    232  |              |  Mac OS X  | |     \         |                       |
    233  |              |    10.6    | |      \        |                       |
    234  |              |     |      | |   NetBSD      |                DragonFly 2.4.0
    235  |              |     |      | |    5.0.1  OpenBSD 4.6                 |
    236  |              |     |      | |       |       |                       |
    237  *--FreeBSD     |     |      | |       |       |                       |
    238  |    8.0       |     |      | |       |       |                       |
    239  |     |     FreeBSD  |      | |   NetBSD      |                       |
    240  |     |       7.3    |      | |    5.0.2      |                DragonFly 2.6.0
    241  |     |        |     |      | |           OpenBSD 4.7                 |
    242  |  FreeBSD     |     |      | |               |                       |
    243  |    8.1       |     |      | |               |                       |
    244  |     |        |     |      | |               |                DragonFly 2.8.2
    245  |     |        |     |      | |           OpenBSD 4.8                 |
    246  |     |        |     |      | *--NetBSD       |                       |
    247  |  FreeBSD  FreeBSD  |      | |    5.1        |                       |
    248  |    8.2      7.4    |      | |      |        |               DragonFly 2.10.1
    249  |     |              |      | |      |    OpenBSD 4.9                 |
    250  |     `-----.     Mac OS X  | |      |        |                       |
    251  |            \      10.7    | |      |        |                       |
    252  |             |      |      | |      |    OpenBSD 5.0                 |
    253  *--FreeBSD    |      |      | |      |        |                       |
    254  |    9.0      |      |      | |   NetBSD      |               DragonFly 3.0.1
    255  |     |    FreeBSD   |      | |    5.1.2      |                       |
    256  |     |      8.3     |      | |      |        |                       |
    257  |     |       |      |      | |   NetBSD      |                       |
    258  |     |       |      |      | |    5.1.3      |                       |
    259  |     |       |      |      | |           OpenBSD 5.1                 |
    260  |     |       |   Mac OS X  | `----.          |                       |
    261  |     |       |     10.8    |       \         |                       |
    262  |     |       |      |   NetBSD 6.0  |        |                       |
    263  |     |       |      |      | | |    |    OpenBSD 5.2         DragonFly 3.2.1
    264  |  FreeBSD    |      |      | | | NetBSD      |                       |
    265  |    9.1      |      |      | | |   5.2       |                       |
    266  |             |      |      | | |    |        |                       |
    267  |             |      |      | | | NetBSD      |                       |
    268  |             |      |      | | |  5.2.1      |                       |
    269  |             |      |      | | |             |                       |
    270  |             |      |      | |  \            |                       |
    271  |             |      |      | |   NetBSD      |                       |
    272  |             |      |      | |    6.0.1      |                       |
    273  |             |      |      | |      |   OpenBSD 5.3          DragonFly 3.4.1
    274  |             |      |      | |   NetBSD      |                       |
    275  |             |      |      | |    6.0.2      |                       |
    276  |             |      |      | |               |                       |
    277  |             |      |      |  `-NetBSD 6.1   |                       |
    278  |          FreeBSD   |      |                 |                       |
    279  |            8.4     |      |                 |                       |
    280  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    281  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    282  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    283 FreeBSD 10 -current   |  NetBSD -current  OpenBSD -current             |
    284  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    285  v                    v      v                 v                       v
    286 
    287 Time
    288 ----------------
    289 
    290 Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
    291 was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
    292 
    293 [44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
    294 	and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
    295 	the 4.4BSD Operating System.
    296 [APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
    297 [BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
    298 [DFB] DragonFlyBSD Project, The.
    299 [DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
    300 [FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
    301 [KB]  Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
    302 	Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
    303 [KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
    304 	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
    305 [KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
    306 	Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
    307 	Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
    308 [NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
    309 [OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
    310 [QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
    311 [SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
    312 [TUHS] The Unix Historical Society.  http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/.
    313 [USE] Usenet announcement.
    314 [WRS] Wind River Systems, Inc.
    315 [dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
    316 
    317 Multics                 1965
    318 UNIX                    Summer 1969
    319 				DEC PDP-7
    320 First   Edition         1971-11-03 [QCU]
    321 				DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
    322 Second  Edition         1972-06-12 [QCU]
    323 				10 UNIX installations
    324 Third   Edition         1973-02-xx [QCU]
    325 				Pipes, 16 installations
    326 Fourth  Edition         1973-11-xx [QCU]
    327 				rewriting in C effected,
    328                                 above 30 installations
    329 Fifth   Edition         1974-06-xx [QCU]
    330 				above 50 installations
    331 Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
    332 				port to DEC Vax
    333 Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
    334 				first portable UNIX
    335 Eighth  Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
    336 				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
    337 				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
    338 				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
    339 			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
    340 			and networking part by the streams mechanism
    341 
    342 Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
    343 Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
    344 
    345 1BSD                    late 1977
    346 			1978-03-09 [QCU]
    347 				PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
    348 				30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
    349 				35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
    350 2BSD                    mid 1978 [QCU] 1979-05-10 [TUHS]
    351 				75 2BSD tapes shipped
    352 2.79BSD			1980-04-xx [TUHS]
    353 2.8BSD			1981-07-xx [KSJ]
    354 
    355 2.8.1BSD		1982-01-xx [QCU]
    356 				set of performance improvements
    357 2.9BSD			1983-07-xx [KSJ]
    358 2.9.1BSD                1983-11-xx [TUHS]
    359 2.9BSD-Seismo		1985-08-xx [SMS]
    360 2.10BSD			1987-04-xx [KKK]
    361 2.10.1BSD		1989-01-xx [SMS]
    362 2.11BSD			1992-02-xx [SMS]
    363 2.11BSD rev #430	1999-12-13 [SMS]
    364 
    365 32V			1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
    366 3BSD                    late 1979 [QCU] March 1980 [TUHS]
    367 				virtual memory, page replacement,
    368                         	demand paging
    369 4.0BSD                  1980-10-xx
    370 4.1BSD                  1981-07-08 [DOC]
    371 4.1aBSD                 1982-04-xx
    372 				alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
    373 4.1bBSD				internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
    374 4.1cBSD                 late 1982
    375 				beta release, IPC [44B]
    376 4.2BSD                  1983-09-xx [QCU]
    377                         1983-08-03 [DOC]
    378 4.3BSD                  1986-06-xx [QCU]
    379 			1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC]
    380 4.3BSD Tahoe            1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC]
    381 4.3BSD NET/1            1988-11-xx [QCU]
    382                         1989-01-01 [DOC]
    383 4.3BSD Reno             1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC]
    384 4.3BSD NET/2            1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC]
    385 
    386 BSD/386 ALPHA		1991-12-xx [BSDI]
    387 				first code released to people outside BSDI
    388 386BSD 0.0              1992-02-xx [DOC]
    389 BSD/386 0.3.1	        1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
    390 BSD/386 0.3.3		1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
    391 386BSD 0.1              1992-07-28 [DOC]
    392 4.4BSD Alpha            1992-07-07
    393 BSD/386 0.9.3		1992-10-xx [BSDI]
    394 				first external gamma; G customers
    395 BSD/386 0.9.4		1992-12-xx [BSDI]
    396 				would have been 1.0 except for request
    397 				for preliminary injunction
    398 BSD/386 1.0 		1993-03-xx [BSDI]
    399 				injunction denied; first official release
    400 NetBSD 0.8              1993-04-20 [NBD]
    401 4.4BSD                  1993-06-01 [USE]
    402 NetBSD 0.9              1993-08-23 [NBD]
    403 FreeBSD 1.0		1993-11-01 [FBD]
    404 FreeBSD 1.0.2		1993-11-14 [FBD]
    405 				supersedes 1.0 13 days after release.
    406 BSD/386 1.1		1994-02-xx [BSDI]
    407 4.4BSD Lite             1994-03-01 [USE]
    408 FreeBSD 1.1		1994-05-07 [FBD]
    409 FreeBSD 1.1.5		1994-06-30 [FBD]
    410 FreeBSD 1.1.5.1		1994-07-05 [FBD]
    411 				supersedes 1.1.5 5 days after release.
    412 NetBSD 1.0              1994-10-26 [NBD]
    413 386BSD 1.0              1994-11-12 [USE]
    414 FreeBSD 2.0		1994-11-23 [FBD]
    415 BSD/OS 2.0		1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
    416 FreeBSD 2.0.5		1995-06-10 [FBD]
    417 BSD/OS 2.0.1		1995-06-xx [BSDI]
    418 4.4BSD Lite Release 2	1995-06-xx [44B]
    419 				the true final distribution from the CSRG
    420 FreeBSD 2.1.0		1995-11-19 [FBD]
    421 NetBSD 1.1              1995-11-26 [NBD]
    422 BSD/OS 2.1		1996-01-xx [BSDI]
    423 FreeBSD 2.1.5		1996-07-14 [FBD]
    424 NetBSD 1.2              1996-10-04 [NBD]
    425 OpenBSD 2.0             1996-10-18 [OBD]
    426 FreeBSD 2.1.6		1996-11-16 [FBD]
    427 FreeBSD 2.1.6.1		1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
    428 Rhapsody		1997-xx-xx
    429 FreeBSD 2.1.7		1997-02-20 [FBD]
    430 BSD/OS 3.0		1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
    431 FreeBSD 2.2.0		1997-03-16 [FBD]
    432 FreeBSD 2.2.1		1997-03-25 [FBD]
    433 FreeBSD 2.2.2		1997-05-16 [FBD]
    434 NetBSD 1.2.1            1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
    435 OpenBSD 2.1             1997-06-01 [OBD]
    436 FreeBSD 2.2.5		1997-10-22 [FBD]
    437 OpenBSD 2.2             1997-12-01 [OBD]
    438 NetBSD 1.3              1998-01-04 [NBD]
    439 FreeBSD 2.2.6		1998-03-25 [FBD]
    440 NetBSD 1.3.1            1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
    441 BSD/OS 3.1		1998-03-xx [BSDI]
    442 OpenBSD 2.3             1998-05-19 [OBD]
    443 NetBSD 1.3.2            1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
    444 FreeBSD 2.2.7		1998-07-22 [FBD]
    445 BSD/OS 4.0		1998-08-xx [BSDI]
    446 				2-lock MP support, ELF executables
    447 FreeBSD 3.0		1998-10-16 [FBD]
    448 				FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
    449 				while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
    450 				was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
    451 FreeBSD 2.2.8           1998-11-29 [FBD]
    452 OpenBSD 2.4             1998-12-01 [OBD]
    453 NetBSD 1.3.3            1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
    454 FreeBSD 3.1		1999-02-15 [FBD]
    455 BSD/OS 4.0.1		1999-03-xx [BSDI]
    456 NetBSD 1.4              1999-05-12 [NBD]
    457 FreeBSD 3.2             1999-05-17 [FBD]
    458 OpenBSD 2.5             1999-05-19 [OBD]
    459 NetBSD 1.4.1            1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
    460 FreeBSD 3.3             1999-09-17 [FBD]
    461 OpenBSD 2.6             1999-12-01 [OBD]
    462 FreeBSD 3.4             1999-12-20 [FBD]
    463 BSD/OS 4.1		1999-12-xx [BSDI]
    464 FreeBSD 4.0             2000-03-13 [FBD]
    465 NetBSD 1.4.2            2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
    466 OpenBSD 2.7             2000-06-15 [OBD]
    467 FreeBSD 3.5		2000-06-24 [FBD]
    468 FreeBSD 4.1		2000-07-27 [FBD]
    469 FreeBSD 3.5.1		2000-07-28 [FBD]
    470 FreeBSD 4.1.1		2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
    471 FreeBSD 4.2  		2000-11-21 [FBD]
    472 NetBSD 1.4.3		2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
    473 BSD/OS 4.2		2000-11-29 [BSDI]
    474 OpenBSD 2.8		2000-12-01 [OBD]
    475 NetBSD 1.5              2000-12-06 [NBD]
    476 Mac OS X 10.0           2001-03-24 [APL]
    477 FreeBSD 4.3  		2001-04-20 [FBD]
    478 OpenBSD 2.9  		2001-06-01 [OBD]
    479 NetBSD 1.5.1		2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
    480 NetBSD 1.5.2		2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
    481 FreeBSD 4.4  		2001-09-18 [FBD]
    482 Mac OS X 10.1		2001-09-29 [APL]
    483 OpenBSD 3.0		2001-12-01 [OBD]
    484 FreeBSD 4.5  		2002-01-29 [FBD]
    485 BSD/OS 4.3		2002-03-14 [WRS]
    486 OpenBSD 3.1		2002-05-19 [OBD]
    487 FreeBSD 4.6  		2002-06-15 [FBD]
    488 NetBSD 1.5.3		2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release)
    489 FreeBSD 4.6.2		2002-08-15 [FBD] (patch release)
    490 Mac OS X 10.2		2002-08-23 [APL]
    491 NetBSD 1.6		2002-09-14 [NBD]
    492 FreeBSD 4.7		2002-10-08 [FBD]
    493 OpenBSD 3.2		2002-11-01 [OBD]
    494 FreeBSD 5.0		2003-01-17 [FBD]
    495 				FreeBSD 5.0 is a separate branch off of
    496 				-current, similar to 3.0.
    497 FreeBSD 4.8		2003-04-03 [FBD]
    498 NetBSD 1.6.1		2003-04-21 [NBD] (patch release)
    499 OpenBSD 3.3		2003-05-01 [OBD]
    500 BSD/OS 5.0		2003-05-?? [WRS]
    501 FreeBSD 5.1		2003-06-09 [FBD]
    502 Mac OS X 10.3		2003-10-24 [APL]
    503 FreeBSD 4.9		2003-10-28 [FBD]
    504 BSD/OS 5.1 ISE		2003-10-?? [WRS] (final version)
    505 OpenBSD 3.4		2003-11-01 [OBD]
    506 FreeBSD 5.2		2004-01-12 [FBD]
    507 FreeBSD 5.2.1		2004-02-22 [FBD] (patch release)
    508 NetBSD 1.6.2		2004-03-01 [NBD] (patch release)
    509 OpenBSD 3.5		2004-04-01 [OBD]
    510 FreeBSD 4.10		2004-05-27 [FBD]
    511 DragonFly 1.0		2004-07-12 [DFB]
    512 OpenBSD 3.6		2004-10-29 [OBD]
    513 FreeBSD 5.3		2004-11-06 [FBD]
    514 NetBSD 2.0		2004-12-09 [NBD]
    515 FreeBSD 4.11		2005-01-25 [FBD]
    516 DragonFly 1.2.0		2005-04-08 [DFB]
    517 NetBSD 2.0.2		2005-04-14 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    518 Mac OS X 10.4		2005-04-29 [APL]
    519 FreeBSD 5.4		2005-05-09 [FBD]
    520 OpenBSD 3.7		2005-05-19 [OBD]
    521 NetBSD 2.0.3		2005-10-31 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    522 OpenBSD 3.8		2005-11-01 [OBD]
    523 FreeBSD 6.0		2005-11-01 [FBD]
    524 NetBSD 2.1		2005-11-02 [NBD]
    525 NetBSD 3.0		2005-12-23 [NBD]
    526 DragonFly 1.4.0		2006-01-08 [DFB]
    527 OpenBSD 3.9		2006-05-01 [OBD]
    528 FreeBSD 6.1		2006-05-08 [FBD]
    529 FreeBSD 5.5		2006-05-25 [FBD]
    530 NetBSD 3.0.1		2006-07-24 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    531 DragonFly 1.6.0		2006-07-24 [DFB]
    532 OpenBSD 4.0		2006-11-01 [OBD]
    533 NetBSD 3.0.2		2006-11-04 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    534 NetBSD 3.1		2006-11-04 [NBD]
    535 FreeBSD 6.2		2007-01-15 [FBD]
    536 DragonFly 1.8.0		2007-01-30 [DFB]
    537 OpenBSD 4.1		2007-05-01 [OBD]
    538 DragonFly 1.10.0	2007-08-06 [DFB]
    539 Mac OS X 10.5		2007-10-26 [APL]
    540 OpenBSD 4.2		2007-11-01 [OBD]
    541 NetBSD 4.0		2007-12-19 [NBD]
    542 FreeBSD 6.3		2008-01-18 [FBD]
    543 DragonFly 1.12.0	2008-02-26 [DFB]
    544 FreeBSD 7.0		2008-02-27 [FBD]
    545 OpenBSD 4.3		2008-05-01 [OBD]
    546 DragonFly 2.0.0		2008-07-21 [DFB]
    547 OpenBSD 4.4		2008-11-01 [OBD]
    548 FreeBSD 6.4		2008-11-28 [FBD]
    549 FreeBSD 7.1		2009-01-04 [FBD]
    550 DragonFly 2.2.0		2009-02-17 [DFB]
    551 NetBSD 5.0		2009-04-29 [NBD]
    552 OpenBSD 4.5		2009-05-01 [OBD]
    553 FreeBSD 7.2		2009-05-04 [FBD]
    554 Mac OS X 10.6		2009-06-08 [APL]
    555 NetBSD 5.0.1		2009-08-02 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    556 DragonFly 2.4.0		2009-09-16 [DFB]
    557 OpenBSD 4.6		2009-10-18 [OBD]
    558 FreeBSD 8.0		2009-11-26 [FBD]
    559 NetBSD 5.0.2		2010-02-12 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    560 FreeBSD 7.3		2010-03-23 [FBD]
    561 DragonFly 2.6.0		2010-03-28 [DFB]
    562 OpenBSD 4.7		2010-05-19 [OBD]
    563 FreeBSD 8.1		2010-07-24 [FBD]
    564 DragonFly 2.8.2		2010-10-30 [DFB]
    565 OpenBSD 4.8		2010-11-01 [OBD]
    566 NetBSD 5.1		2010-11-19 [NBD]
    567 FreeBSD 7.4		2011-02-24 [FBD]
    568 FreeBSD 8.2		2011-02-24 [FBD]
    569 DragonFly 2.10.1	2011-04-26 [DFB]
    570 OpenBSD 4.9		2011-05-01 [OBD]
    571 Mac OS X 10.7		2011-07-20 [APL]
    572 OpenBSD 5.0		2011-11-01 [OBD]
    573 FreeBSD 9.0		2012-01-12 [FBD]
    574 NetBSD 5.1.2		2012-02-02 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    575 DragonFly 3.0.1		2012-02-21 [DFB]
    576 FreeBSD 8.3		2012-04-18 [FBD]
    577 OpenBSD 5.1		2012-05-01 [OBD]
    578 Mac OS X 10.8		2012-07-25 [APL]
    579 NetBSD 6.0		2012-10-17 [NBD]
    580 OpenBSD 5.2		2012-11-01 [OBD]
    581 DragonFly 3.2.1		2012-11-02 [DFB]
    582 NetBSD 5.2		2012-12-03 [NBD]
    583 NetBSD 6.0.1		2012-12-26 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    584 FreeBSD 9.1		2012-12-30 [FBD]
    585 DragonFly 3.4.1		2013-04-29 [DFB]
    586 OpenBSD 5.3		2013-05-01 [OBD]
    587 NetBSD 6.0.2		2013-05-18 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    588 NetBSD 6.1		2013-05-18 [NBD]
    589 FreeBSD 8.4		2013-06-07 [FBD]
    590 NetBSD 5.1.3		2013-09-29 [NBD]
    591 NetBSD 5.2.1		2013-09-29 [NBD]
    592 
    593 Bibliography
    594 ------------------------
    595 
    596 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
    597 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
    598 System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
    599 
    600 Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
    601 Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
    602 
    603 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
    604 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
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    606 
    607 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, George Neville-Neil. The Design and
    608 Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.
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    610 
    611 Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
    612 
    613 Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
    614 Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
    615 Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
    616 
    617 Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
    618 URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm
    619 
    620 Andreas Klemm, Lars Kller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
    621 Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
    622 
    623 BSD Release Announcements collection.
    624 URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/
    625 
    626 BSD Hypertext Man Pages
    627 URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
    628 
    629 UNIX history graphing project
    630 URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
    631 
    632 UNIX history
    633 URL: http://www.levenez.com/unix/
    634 
    635 James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
    636 URL: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
    637 ("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
    638 
    639 
    640 Acknowledgments
    641 ---------------
    642 
    643 Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
    644 original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
    645 
    646 Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
    647 
    648 --
    649 Copyright (c) 1997-2012 Wolfram Schneider <wosch (a] FreeBSD.ORG>
    650 URL: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
    651 
    652 $FreeBSD$
    653