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which permit use of the BSD software in proprietary systems, as long the author is credited. The company in turn contributed code and resources to the development of non-proprietary BSD operating systems. In the meantime, Jolitz had left BSDi and independently released an
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to bear the UNIX trademark, and the sales force and hardware support of the larger Unix vendors. Simultaneously, it lacked the negligible acquisition cost of the open source BSDs and
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documentation for the entire system, including complete syntax and argument explanations, examples, file usage, authors, and cross-references to other commands.
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Wind River to Acquire BSDi Software Assets, Extending Development Platforms to Include Robust UNIX-based Operating Systems for Embedded Devices
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McKusick, M. K. (1999). Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix - From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable. Retrieved July 27, 2006, from
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in April 2001. Wind River discontinued sales of BSD/OS at the end of 2003, with support terminated at the end of 2004.
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BSD/386 1.0 was released in March 1993. The company sold licenses and support for it, taking advantage of terms in the
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in the late 1990s and early 2000s hurt sales of BSD/OS. On one end of the market, it lacked the certification of
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This article is about the proprietary Unix sold by BSDi. For the open source Unix released by Bill Jolitz, see
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source licenses, a fact highlighted in their advertisements. As part of the settlement of
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server applications. However, the increasingly tight market for
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
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to develop and sell a proprietary version of BSD Unix for
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The marketing of BSD/OS became increasingly focused on
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The BSDi system features complete and thorough 216:roles; the renowned Unix programmer and author 198:) is a discontinued proprietary version of the 946: 567: 8: 28: 212:BSD/OS had a reputation for reliability in 1025: 953: 939: 931: 668: 574: 560: 552: 232:BSDi was formed in 1991 by members of the 27: 329: 480: 7: 1520: 915: 279:) were priced at $ 995, lower than 14: 1519: 1508: 1507: 914: 905: 904: 252:to port BSD to the PC platform. 1506:indicate discontinued systems. 892:Computer Systems Research Group 234:Computer Systems Research Group 1553:Discontinued operating systems 1548:Berkeley Software Distribution 583:Berkeley Software Distribution 1: 220:used it for his own personal 275:BSD/386 licenses (including 93:BSD/386 1.0, March 1993 1491:Windows Subsystem for Linux 95:; 31 years ago 1569: 15: 1499: 1485:Windows Services for UNIX 1440:Microsoft POSIX subsystem 979: 900: 318:. 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Index

386BSD
Developer
Berkeley Software Design
Written in
C
Unix-like
Net/2
Internet
Available in
English
x86
SPARC
PowerPC
Kernel
Monolithic
Default
user interface

Command-line interface
License
BSD
operating system
Berkeley Software Design
server
W. Richard Stevens
web server
Computer Systems Research Group
UC Berkeley
PC compatible
Intel 386
Bill Jolitz
BSD License

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