Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI or, later, BSDi), was a software company founded in 1991 by members of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG)...
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The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer...
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Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and the Regents of the University of California over intellectual...
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The history of the Berkeley Software Distribution began in the 1970s when University of California, Berkeley received a copy of Unix. Professors and students...
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Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006. Berkeley DB is freely-licensed...
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BSD/OS (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
BSD/386. It was originally developed and sold by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi) and designed to be a Unix for 386-based PCs. It was built off the...
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software version of BSD Unix, which, in turn, enabled the creation of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Bostic was a founder of Berkeley Software Design Inc...
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386BSD (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
code from Net/2. Jolitz also claims that 386BSD was the base of Berkeley Software Design (BSDi)'s commercial BSD/386. 386BSD was short-lived as disagreements...
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (stylized as cādence) is an American multinational technology and computational software company headquartered in San Jose...
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Computer Systems Research Group (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
Berkeley Software Design and Sleepycat Software (later acquired by Oracle) can be considered spin-off companies of CSRG. Berkeley Software Design was...
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IXsystems (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
founded in 1991 as Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI, later BSDi) by Rick Adams and members of the University of California, Berkeley Computer Systems...
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Berkeley DB (BDB) is an embedded database software library for key/value data, historically significant in open-source software. Berkeley DB is written...
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Look up BSD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BSD is the Berkeley Software Distribution, a free Unix-like operating system, and numerous variants. BSD...
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BSD licenses (redirect from Berkeley Software Distribution licenses)
requirements. The original BSD license was used for its namesake, the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix-like operating system. The original version...
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Unix System Laboratories (redirect from UNIX Software Operation)
Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and in it USL asked the court for a preliminary injunction that would bar the Berkeley firm and the university...
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representations. Magic features real-time design rule checking, something that some costly commercial VLSI design software packages don't feature. Magic implements...
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BIND (redirect from Berkeley Internet Name Domain)
resolver interface library. The software was originally designed at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in the early 1980s. The name originates...
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with Berkeley sockets, but they are also known as BSD sockets, acknowledging the first implementation in the Berkeley Software Distribution. Berkeley sockets...
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List of free electronics circuit simulators (category Electronic design automation software)
TI design and simulation tool; Texas Instruments. http://gnucap.org Tools that use ngspice as simulator; Ngspice. SPICE 3f.5 Release; UC Berkeley. "Sandia...
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Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate (category History of free and open-source software)
against Berkeley Software Design, which pertained to the intellectual property related to UNIX. The lawsuit slowed development of the free-software descendants...
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Playing Card Deck. In February 1992 Karels moved to BSDI (Berkeley Software Design) and designed BSD/OS, which, for years, was the only commercially available...
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Wind River Systems (category Companies based in Berkeley, California)
Fiddler and Dave Wilner. Until 1981, Fiddler had worked at Berkeley Lab writing software for control systems, and wanted to pursue a career in computer...
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Unix (category 1969 software)
University of California and Berkeley Software Design Inc. (USL v. BSDi) by Unix System Laboratories, it was clarified that Berkeley had the right to distribute...
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University of California Berkeley Jarczyk, Alex P.; Löffler, Peter; Shipman III, Frank M. (1992), "Design Rationale for Software Engineering: A Survey"...
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form in 1952. Berkeley RISC – David Patterson leads ARPA's VLSI project of microprocessor design 1980–1984. Berkeley UNIX/Berkeley Software Distribution...
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The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ –rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer...
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Worse is better (redirect from Right Thing (software development))
worse-is-better design approach. He also calls them "the ultimate computer viruses". Gabriel argued that "Worse is better" produced more successful software than...
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California, Berkeley College of Engineering (branded as Berkeley Engineering) is the public engineering school of the University of California, Berkeley (a land-grant...
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FreeBSD (category 1993 software)
FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed...
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Jolitz, and Trent Hein) left the University of California to found Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi), which sold a fully functional commercial version...
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