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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 6.0.3 |                       |
    278  |             |      |      | |      |        |                       |
    279  |             |      |      | |  NetBSD 6.0.4 |                       |
    280  |             |      |      | |      |        |                       |
    281  |             |      |      | |  NetBSD 6.0.5 |                       |
    282  |             |      |      | |               |                       |
    283  |             |      |      |  `-NetBSD 6.1   |                       |
    284  |          FreeBSD   |      |     |           |                       |
    285  |            8.4     |      |    NetBSD 6.1.1 |                       |
    286  |                    |      |     |           |                       |
    287  |                    |      |    NetBSD 6.1.2 |                       |
    288  |                    |      |     |           |                       |
    289  |                    |      |    NetBSD 6.1.3 |                       |
    290  |                    |      |     |           |                       |
    291  |                    |      |    NetBSD 6.1.4 |                       |
    292  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    293 FreeBSD 10 -current   |  NetBSD -current  OpenBSD -current             |
    294  |                    |      |                 |                       |
    295  v                    v      v                 v                       v
    296 
    297 Time
    298 ----------------
    299 
    300 Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
    301 was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
    302 
    303 [44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
    304 	and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
    305 	the 4.4BSD Operating System.
    306 [APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
    307 [BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
    308 [DFB] DragonFlyBSD Project, The.
    309 [DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
    310 [FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
    311 [KB]  Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
    312 	Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
    313 [KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
    314 	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
    315 [KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
    316 	Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
    317 	Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
    318 [NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
    319 [OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
    320 [QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
    321 [SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
    322 [TUHS] The Unix Historical Society.  http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/.
    323 [USE] Usenet announcement.
    324 [WRS] Wind River Systems, Inc.
    325 [dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
    326 
    327 Multics                 1965
    328 UNIX                    Summer 1969
    329 				DEC PDP-7
    330 First   Edition         1971-11-03 [QCU]
    331 				DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
    332 Second  Edition         1972-06-12 [QCU]
    333 				10 UNIX installations
    334 Third   Edition         1973-02-xx [QCU]
    335 				Pipes, 16 installations
    336 Fourth  Edition         1973-11-xx [QCU]
    337 				rewriting in C effected,
    338                                 above 30 installations
    339 Fifth   Edition         1974-06-xx [QCU]
    340 				above 50 installations
    341 Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
    342 				port to DEC Vax
    343 Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
    344 				first portable UNIX
    345 Eighth  Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
    346 				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
    347 				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
    348 				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
    349 			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
    350 			and networking part by the streams mechanism
    351 
    352 Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
    353 Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
    354 
    355 1BSD                    late 1977
    356 			1978-03-09 [QCU]
    357 				PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
    358 				30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
    359 				35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
    360 2BSD                    mid 1978 [QCU] 1979-05-10 [TUHS]
    361 				75 2BSD tapes shipped
    362 2.79BSD			1980-04-xx [TUHS]
    363 2.8BSD			1981-07-xx [KSJ]
    364 
    365 2.8.1BSD		1982-01-xx [QCU]
    366 				set of performance improvements
    367 2.9BSD			1983-07-xx [KSJ]
    368 2.9.1BSD                1983-11-xx [TUHS]
    369 2.9BSD-Seismo		1985-08-xx [SMS]
    370 2.10BSD			1987-04-xx [KKK]
    371 2.10.1BSD		1989-01-xx [SMS]
    372 2.11BSD			1992-02-xx [SMS]
    373 2.11BSD rev #430	1999-12-13 [SMS]
    374 
    375 32V			1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
    376 3BSD                    late 1979 [QCU] March 1980 [TUHS]
    377 				virtual memory, page replacement,
    378                         	demand paging
    379 4.0BSD                  1980-10-xx
    380 4.1BSD                  1981-07-08 [DOC]
    381 4.1aBSD                 1982-04-xx
    382 				alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
    383 4.1bBSD				internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
    384 4.1cBSD                 late 1982
    385 				beta release, IPC [44B]
    386 4.2BSD                  1983-09-xx [QCU]
    387                         1983-08-03 [DOC]
    388 4.3BSD                  1986-06-xx [QCU]
    389 			1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC]
    390 4.3BSD Tahoe            1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC]
    391 4.3BSD NET/1            1988-11-xx [QCU]
    392                         1989-01-01 [DOC]
    393 4.3BSD Reno             1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC]
    394 4.3BSD NET/2            1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC]
    395 
    396 BSD/386 ALPHA		1991-12-xx [BSDI]
    397 				first code released to people outside BSDI
    398 386BSD 0.0              1992-02-xx [DOC]
    399 BSD/386 0.3.1	        1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
    400 BSD/386 0.3.3		1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
    401 386BSD 0.1              1992-07-28 [DOC]
    402 4.4BSD Alpha            1992-07-07
    403 BSD/386 0.9.3		1992-10-xx [BSDI]
    404 				first external gamma; G customers
    405 BSD/386 0.9.4		1992-12-xx [BSDI]
    406 				would have been 1.0 except for request
    407 				for preliminary injunction
    408 BSD/386 1.0 		1993-03-xx [BSDI]
    409 				injunction denied; first official release
    410 NetBSD 0.8              1993-04-20 [NBD]
    411 4.4BSD                  1993-06-01 [USE]
    412 NetBSD 0.9              1993-08-23 [NBD]
    413 FreeBSD 1.0		1993-11-01 [FBD]
    414 FreeBSD 1.0.2		1993-11-14 [FBD]
    415 				supersedes 1.0 13 days after release.
    416 BSD/386 1.1		1994-02-xx [BSDI]
    417 4.4BSD Lite             1994-03-01 [USE]
    418 FreeBSD 1.1		1994-05-07 [FBD]
    419 FreeBSD 1.1.5		1994-06-30 [FBD]
    420 FreeBSD 1.1.5.1		1994-07-05 [FBD]
    421 				supersedes 1.1.5 5 days after release.
    422 NetBSD 1.0              1994-10-26 [NBD]
    423 386BSD 1.0              1994-11-12 [USE]
    424 FreeBSD 2.0		1994-11-23 [FBD]
    425 BSD/OS 2.0		1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
    426 FreeBSD 2.0.5		1995-06-10 [FBD]
    427 BSD/OS 2.0.1		1995-06-xx [BSDI]
    428 4.4BSD Lite Release 2	1995-06-xx [44B]
    429 				the true final distribution from the CSRG
    430 FreeBSD 2.1.0		1995-11-19 [FBD]
    431 NetBSD 1.1              1995-11-26 [NBD]
    432 BSD/OS 2.1		1996-01-xx [BSDI]
    433 FreeBSD 2.1.5		1996-07-14 [FBD]
    434 NetBSD 1.2              1996-10-04 [NBD]
    435 OpenBSD 2.0             1996-10-18 [OBD]
    436 FreeBSD 2.1.6		1996-11-16 [FBD]
    437 FreeBSD 2.1.6.1		1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
    438 Rhapsody		1997-xx-xx
    439 FreeBSD 2.1.7		1997-02-20 [FBD]
    440 BSD/OS 3.0		1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
    441 FreeBSD 2.2.0		1997-03-16 [FBD]
    442 FreeBSD 2.2.1		1997-03-25 [FBD]
    443 FreeBSD 2.2.2		1997-05-16 [FBD]
    444 NetBSD 1.2.1            1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
    445 OpenBSD 2.1             1997-06-01 [OBD]
    446 FreeBSD 2.2.5		1997-10-22 [FBD]
    447 OpenBSD 2.2             1997-12-01 [OBD]
    448 NetBSD 1.3              1998-01-04 [NBD]
    449 FreeBSD 2.2.6		1998-03-25 [FBD]
    450 NetBSD 1.3.1            1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
    451 BSD/OS 3.1		1998-03-xx [BSDI]
    452 OpenBSD 2.3             1998-05-19 [OBD]
    453 NetBSD 1.3.2            1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
    454 FreeBSD 2.2.7		1998-07-22 [FBD]
    455 BSD/OS 4.0		1998-08-xx [BSDI]
    456 				2-lock MP support, ELF executables
    457 FreeBSD 3.0		1998-10-16 [FBD]
    458 				FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
    459 				while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
    460 				was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
    461 FreeBSD 2.2.8           1998-11-29 [FBD]
    462 OpenBSD 2.4             1998-12-01 [OBD]
    463 NetBSD 1.3.3            1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
    464 FreeBSD 3.1		1999-02-15 [FBD]
    465 BSD/OS 4.0.1		1999-03-xx [BSDI]
    466 NetBSD 1.4              1999-05-12 [NBD]
    467 FreeBSD 3.2             1999-05-17 [FBD]
    468 OpenBSD 2.5             1999-05-19 [OBD]
    469 NetBSD 1.4.1            1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
    470 FreeBSD 3.3             1999-09-17 [FBD]
    471 OpenBSD 2.6             1999-12-01 [OBD]
    472 FreeBSD 3.4             1999-12-20 [FBD]
    473 BSD/OS 4.1		1999-12-xx [BSDI]
    474 FreeBSD 4.0             2000-03-13 [FBD]
    475 NetBSD 1.4.2            2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
    476 OpenBSD 2.7             2000-06-15 [OBD]
    477 FreeBSD 3.5		2000-06-24 [FBD]
    478 FreeBSD 4.1		2000-07-27 [FBD]
    479 FreeBSD 3.5.1		2000-07-28 [FBD]
    480 FreeBSD 4.1.1		2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
    481 FreeBSD 4.2  		2000-11-21 [FBD]
    482 NetBSD 1.4.3		2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
    483 BSD/OS 4.2		2000-11-29 [BSDI]
    484 OpenBSD 2.8		2000-12-01 [OBD]
    485 NetBSD 1.5              2000-12-06 [NBD]
    486 Mac OS X 10.0           2001-03-24 [APL]
    487 FreeBSD 4.3  		2001-04-20 [FBD]
    488 OpenBSD 2.9  		2001-06-01 [OBD]
    489 NetBSD 1.5.1		2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
    490 NetBSD 1.5.2		2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
    491 FreeBSD 4.4  		2001-09-18 [FBD]
    492 Mac OS X 10.1		2001-09-29 [APL]
    493 OpenBSD 3.0		2001-12-01 [OBD]
    494 FreeBSD 4.5  		2002-01-29 [FBD]
    495 BSD/OS 4.3		2002-03-14 [WRS]
    496 OpenBSD 3.1		2002-05-19 [OBD]
    497 FreeBSD 4.6  		2002-06-15 [FBD]
    498 NetBSD 1.5.3		2002-07-22 [NBD] (patch release)
    499 FreeBSD 4.6.2		2002-08-15 [FBD] (patch release)
    500 Mac OS X 10.2		2002-08-23 [APL]
    501 NetBSD 1.6		2002-09-14 [NBD]
    502 FreeBSD 4.7		2002-10-08 [FBD]
    503 OpenBSD 3.2		2002-11-01 [OBD]
    504 FreeBSD 5.0		2003-01-17 [FBD]
    505 				FreeBSD 5.0 is a separate branch off of
    506 				-current, similar to 3.0.
    507 FreeBSD 4.8		2003-04-03 [FBD]
    508 NetBSD 1.6.1		2003-04-21 [NBD] (patch release)
    509 OpenBSD 3.3		2003-05-01 [OBD]
    510 BSD/OS 5.0		2003-05-?? [WRS]
    511 FreeBSD 5.1		2003-06-09 [FBD]
    512 Mac OS X 10.3		2003-10-24 [APL]
    513 FreeBSD 4.9		2003-10-28 [FBD]
    514 BSD/OS 5.1 ISE		2003-10-?? [WRS] (final version)
    515 OpenBSD 3.4		2003-11-01 [OBD]
    516 FreeBSD 5.2		2004-01-12 [FBD]
    517 FreeBSD 5.2.1		2004-02-22 [FBD] (patch release)
    518 NetBSD 1.6.2		2004-03-01 [NBD] (patch release)
    519 OpenBSD 3.5		2004-04-01 [OBD]
    520 FreeBSD 4.10		2004-05-27 [FBD]
    521 DragonFly 1.0		2004-07-12 [DFB]
    522 OpenBSD 3.6		2004-10-29 [OBD]
    523 FreeBSD 5.3		2004-11-06 [FBD]
    524 NetBSD 2.0		2004-12-09 [NBD]
    525 FreeBSD 4.11		2005-01-25 [FBD]
    526 DragonFly 1.2.0		2005-04-08 [DFB]
    527 NetBSD 2.0.2		2005-04-14 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    528 Mac OS X 10.4		2005-04-29 [APL]
    529 FreeBSD 5.4		2005-05-09 [FBD]
    530 OpenBSD 3.7		2005-05-19 [OBD]
    531 NetBSD 2.0.3		2005-10-31 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    532 OpenBSD 3.8		2005-11-01 [OBD]
    533 FreeBSD 6.0		2005-11-01 [FBD]
    534 NetBSD 2.1		2005-11-02 [NBD]
    535 NetBSD 3.0		2005-12-23 [NBD]
    536 DragonFly 1.4.0		2006-01-08 [DFB]
    537 OpenBSD 3.9		2006-05-01 [OBD]
    538 FreeBSD 6.1		2006-05-08 [FBD]
    539 FreeBSD 5.5		2006-05-25 [FBD]
    540 NetBSD 3.0.1		2006-07-24 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    541 DragonFly 1.6.0		2006-07-24 [DFB]
    542 OpenBSD 4.0		2006-11-01 [OBD]
    543 NetBSD 3.0.2		2006-11-04 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    544 NetBSD 3.1		2006-11-04 [NBD]
    545 FreeBSD 6.2		2007-01-15 [FBD]
    546 DragonFly 1.8.0		2007-01-30 [DFB]
    547 OpenBSD 4.1		2007-05-01 [OBD]
    548 DragonFly 1.10.0	2007-08-06 [DFB]
    549 Mac OS X 10.5		2007-10-26 [APL]
    550 OpenBSD 4.2		2007-11-01 [OBD]
    551 NetBSD 4.0		2007-12-19 [NBD]
    552 FreeBSD 6.3		2008-01-18 [FBD]
    553 DragonFly 1.12.0	2008-02-26 [DFB]
    554 FreeBSD 7.0		2008-02-27 [FBD]
    555 OpenBSD 4.3		2008-05-01 [OBD]
    556 DragonFly 2.0.0		2008-07-21 [DFB]
    557 OpenBSD 4.4		2008-11-01 [OBD]
    558 FreeBSD 6.4		2008-11-28 [FBD]
    559 FreeBSD 7.1		2009-01-04 [FBD]
    560 DragonFly 2.2.0		2009-02-17 [DFB]
    561 NetBSD 5.0		2009-04-29 [NBD]
    562 OpenBSD 4.5		2009-05-01 [OBD]
    563 FreeBSD 7.2		2009-05-04 [FBD]
    564 Mac OS X 10.6		2009-06-08 [APL]
    565 NetBSD 5.0.1		2009-08-02 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    566 DragonFly 2.4.0		2009-09-16 [DFB]
    567 OpenBSD 4.6		2009-10-18 [OBD]
    568 FreeBSD 8.0		2009-11-26 [FBD]
    569 NetBSD 5.0.2		2010-02-12 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    570 FreeBSD 7.3		2010-03-23 [FBD]
    571 DragonFly 2.6.0		2010-03-28 [DFB]
    572 OpenBSD 4.7		2010-05-19 [OBD]
    573 FreeBSD 8.1		2010-07-24 [FBD]
    574 DragonFly 2.8.2		2010-10-30 [DFB]
    575 OpenBSD 4.8		2010-11-01 [OBD]
    576 NetBSD 5.1		2010-11-19 [NBD]
    577 FreeBSD 7.4		2011-02-24 [FBD]
    578 FreeBSD 8.2		2011-02-24 [FBD]
    579 DragonFly 2.10.1	2011-04-26 [DFB]
    580 OpenBSD 4.9		2011-05-01 [OBD]
    581 Mac OS X 10.7		2011-07-20 [APL]
    582 OpenBSD 5.0		2011-11-01 [OBD]
    583 FreeBSD 9.0		2012-01-12 [FBD]
    584 NetBSD 5.1.2		2012-02-02 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    585 DragonFly 3.0.1		2012-02-21 [DFB]
    586 FreeBSD 8.3		2012-04-18 [FBD]
    587 OpenBSD 5.1		2012-05-01 [OBD]
    588 Mac OS X 10.8		2012-07-25 [APL]
    589 NetBSD 6.0		2012-10-17 [NBD]
    590 OpenBSD 5.2		2012-11-01 [OBD]
    591 DragonFly 3.2.1		2012-11-02 [DFB]
    592 NetBSD 5.2		2012-12-03 [NBD]
    593 NetBSD 6.0.1		2012-12-26 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    594 FreeBSD 9.1		2012-12-30 [FBD]
    595 DragonFly 3.4.1		2013-04-29 [DFB]
    596 OpenBSD 5.3		2013-05-01 [OBD]
    597 NetBSD 6.0.2		2013-05-18 [NBD] (security/critical release)
    598 NetBSD 6.1		2013-05-18 [NBD]
    599 FreeBSD 8.4		2013-06-07 [FBD]
    600 NetBSD 6.1.1		2013-08-22 [NBD]
    601 NetBSD 5.1.3		2013-09-29 [NBD]
    602 NetBSD 5.2.1		2013-09-29 [NBD]
    603 NetBSD 6.0.3		2013-09-30 [NBD]
    604 NetBSD 6.1.2		2013-09-30 [NBD]
    605 NetBSD 6.0.4		2014-01-25 [NBD]
    606 NetBSD 6.1.3		2014-01-25 [NBD]
    607 NetBSD 6.0.5		2014-04-12 [NBD]
    608 NetBSD 6.1.4		2014-04-12 [NBD]
    609 
    610 Bibliography
    611 ------------------------
    612 
    613 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
    614 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
    615 System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
    616 
    617 Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
    618 Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
    619 
    620 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
    621 Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
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    623 
    624 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, George Neville-Neil. The Design and
    625 Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.
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    627 
    628 Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
    629 
    630 Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
    631 Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
    632 Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
    633 
    634 Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
    635 URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm
    636 
    637 Andreas Klemm, Lars Kller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
    638 Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
    639 
    640 BSD Release Announcements collection.
    641 URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/
    642 
    643 BSD Hypertext Man Pages
    644 URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
    645 
    646 UNIX history graphing project
    647 URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
    648 
    649 UNIX history
    650 URL: http://www.levenez.com/unix/
    651 
    652 James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
    653 URL: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
    654 ("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
    655 
    656 
    657 Acknowledgments
    658 ---------------
    659 
    660 Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
    661 original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
    662 
    663 Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
    664 
    665 --
    666 Copyright (c) 1997-2012 Wolfram Schneider <wosch (a] FreeBSD.ORG>
    667 URL: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
    668 
    669 $FreeBSD$
    670