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From: drew@eon.com (Drew Senko)
Subject: Re: BSD history
Message-ID: <drew.786658620@corp>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 20:17:00 GMT
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C.J.Ridd@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd) writes:
>I feel faintly foolish posting this, but here goes:
>I don't understand all the different 'versions' of BSD around
>nowadays. Can someone please post a sort of family tree showing where
>all the BSD versions fit in (and I'm thinking of NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSD
>4.4, BSD 4.4 Lite and any others I've missed :-)
The following "tree" is from the book "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2", by
Gary R. Wright and W. Richard Stevens. The book will be available in
January 1995.
4.2 BSD (1983)
first widely available
release of TCP/IP
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V
4.3 BSD (1986)
TCP performance improvements
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V
4.3 BSD Tahoe (1988) -------------------> BSD Networking Software
slow start, congestion avoidance Release 1.0 (1989)
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V
4.3 BSD Reno (1990) --------------------> BSD Networking Software
TCP header prediction, Release 2.0 (1991)
SLIP header compression,
routing table changes
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V
4.4 BSD (1993) -------------------------> 4.4 BSD-Lite (1994)
multicasting,
long fat pipe modifications
--
Drew Senko Stand-Up Philosopher
drew@eon.com