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From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 09 Dec 1994 00:50:10 GMT
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3.0 BSD
first demand paging unix
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4.1 BSD
first TCP/IP
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4.2 BSD (1983)
first widely available
release of TCP/IP
first sockets
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4.3 BSD (1986)
TCP performance improvements
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4.3 BSD Tahoe (1988) ------------------->  BSD Networking Software
slow start, congestion avoidance           Release 1.0 (1989)
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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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4.4 BSD (1993) ------------------------->  4.4 BSD-Lite (1994)
multicasting,
long fat pipe modifications

What has LINUX done for UN*X?