Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd Edition
by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N.M. Watson
History of UNIX at Berkeley
Learn the history of the BSD (Berkeley Software Distributions) from one of the key developers who brings the history to life, complete with anecdotes and interesting footnotes to the historical narrative.
Part I is titled “Twenty Years of Berkeley UNIX: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable.” The history of UNIX development at Berkeley has been recounted in detail by Marshall Kirk McKusick in his chapter in the O’Reilly book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution and is now recounted in part one of this video. It begins with the start of the BSD community at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1970s. It relates the triumphs and defeats of the project and its releases during its heydays ...
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