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1The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD
2---------------------------------------------
3
4First Edition (V1)
5     |
6Second Edition (V2)
7     |
8Third Edition (V3)
9     |
10Fourth Edition (V4)
11     |
12Fifth Edition (V5)
13     |
14Sixth Edition (V6) -----*
15       \                |
16        \               |
17         \              |
18Seventh Edition (V7)    |
19            \           |
20             \        1BSD
21             32V        |
22               \      2BSD---------------*
23                \    /                   |
24                 \  /                    |
25                  \/                     |
26                 3BSD                    |
27                  |                      |
28               4.0BSD               2.7.9BSD
29                  |                      |
30               4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD
31                  |                      |
32              4.1aBSD -----------\       |
33                  |                \     |
34              4.1bBSD                \   |
35                  |                    \ |
36      *------ 4.1cBSD --------------> 2.9BSD
37     /            |                      |
38Eighth Edition    |                   2.9BSD-Seismo
39     |            |                      |
40     +----<--- 4.2BSD               2.9.1BSD
41     |            |                      |
42     +----<--- 4.3BSD -------------> 2.10BSD
43     |            |               /      |
44Ninth Edition     |              / 2.10.1BSD
45     |         4.3BSD Tahoe-----+        |
46     |            |              \       |
47     |            |                \     |
48     v            |                  2.11BSD
49Tenth Edition     |                      |
50                  |                  2.11BSD rev #430
51               4.3BSD NET/1              |
52                  |                      v
53               4.3BSD Reno
54                  |
55   *---------- 4.3BSD NET/2 -------------------+-------------*
56   |                    |                      |             |
57386BSD 0.0              |                      |           BSD/386 ALPHA
58   |                    |                      |             |
59386BSD 0.1 ------------>+                      |           BSD/386 0.3.[13]
60   |     \              |                  4.4BSD Alpha      |
61   |     386BSD 1.0     |                      |           BSD/386 0.9.[34]
62   |                    |                  4.4BSD            |
63   |                    |                    / |             |
64   |                    |   4.4BSD-Encumbered  |             |
65   |                 NetBSD 0.8                |           BSD/386 1.0
66   |                    |                      |             |
67FreeBSD 1.0          NetBSD 0.9                |           BSD/386 1.1
68   |                    |           .----- 4.4BSD Lite       |
69FreeBSD 1.1             |          /   /       |     \       |
70   |                    |         /   /        |      \      |
71FreeBSD 1.1.5       .---|--------'   /         |       \     |
72   |               /    |           /          |        \    |
73FreeBSD 1.1.5.1   /     |          /           |         \   |
74   |             /   NetBSD 1.0 <-'            |          \  |
75   |            /       |                      |           \ |
76FreeBSD 2.0 <--'        |                      |           BSD/OS 2.0
77   |                     \                     |             |
78FreeBSD 2.0.5             \                    |           BSD/OS 2.0.1
79   |                 .-----\------------- 4.4BSD Lite2       |
80   |                 |      \             |  |   |   |       |
81   |                 | .-----|------Rhapsody |   |   |       |
82   |                 | |     |        NetBSD 1.3 |   |       |
83   |                 | |     |           OpenBSD 2.3 |       |
84   |                 | |     |                BSD/OS 3.0     |
85FreeBSD 2.1          | |     |                               |
86 |   |               | |  NetBSD 1.1 ------.               BSD/OS 2.1
87 | FreeBSD 2.1.5     | |     |              \                |
88 |     |             | |  NetBSD 1.2         \             BSD/OS 3.0
89 | FreeBSD 2.1.6     | |     |  \          OpenBSD 2.0       |
90 |     |             | |     |   \             |             |
91 | FreeBSD 2.1.6.1   | |     |    \            |             |
92 |     |             | |     |     \           |             |
93 | FreeBSD 2.1.7     | |     |      |          |             |
94 |     |             | |     |  NetBSD 1.2.1   |             |
95 | FreeBSD 2.1.7.1   | |     |                 |             |
96 |                   | |     |                 |             |
97 |                   | |     |                 |             |
98 *-FreeBSD 2.2       | |     |                 |             |
99 |        \          | |     |                 |             |
100 |     FreeBSD 2.2.1 | |     |                 |             |
101 |         |         | |     |                 |             |
102 |     FreeBSD 2.2.2 | |     |             OpenBSD 2.1       |
103 |         |         | |     |                 |             |
104 |     FreeBSD 2.2.5 | |     |                 |             |
105 |         |         | |     |             OpenBSD 2.2       |
106 |         |         | |  NetBSD 1.3           |             |
107 |     FreeBSD 2.2.6 | |     |    |            |             |
108 |         |         | |     | NetBSD 1.3.1    |           BSD/OS 3.1
109 |         |         | |     |    |        OpenBSD 2.3       |
110 |         |         | |     | NetBSD 1.3.2    |             |
111 |     FreeBSD 2.2.7 | |     |    |            |             |
112 |         |         | |     |    |            |           BSD/OS 4.0
113 |         v         | |     |    |            |             |
114 |     FreeBSD 2.2.8 | |     |    |            |             |
115 |                   | |     |    |        OpenBSD 2.4       |
116FreeBSD 3.0 <--------* |     |    v            |             |
117 |                     |     | NetBSD 1.3.3    |             |
118 *---FreeBSD 3.1       |     |                 |             |
119 |       |             |     |                 |           BSD/OS 4.0.1
120 |   FreeBSD 3.2----*  |  NetBSD 1.4       OpenBSD 2.5       |
121 |       |          |  |  |  |    |            |             |
122 |       |          |  |  |  |    |            |             |
123 |       |          |  |  |  |    |            |             |
124 |   FreeBSD 3.3    |  |  |  | NetBSD 1.4.1    |             |
125 |       |          |  |  |  |    |        OpenBSD 2.6       |
126 |   FreeBSD 3.4    |  |  |  |    |            |             |
127 |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |           BSD/OS 4.1
128FreeBSD 4.0  |      |  |  |  | NetBSD 1.4.2    |             |
129 |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |             |
130 |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |             |
131 |   FreeBSD 3.5    |  |  |  |    |        OpenBSD 2.7       |
132 |           |      |  |  |  |    |            |             |
133 |   FreeBSD 3.5.1  |  |  |  |    |            |             |
134 |                  |  |  |  |    |            |             |
135 *---FreeBSD 4.1    |  |  |  |    |            |             |
136 |      |           |  | (?) |    |            |             |
137 |   FreeBSD 4.1.1  |  |  /  |    |            |             |
138 |      |           |  | /   |    v            |             |
139 |   FreeBSD 4.2   Darwin/   | NetBSD 1.4.3    |             |
140 |      |         Mac OS X   |    |        OpenBSD 2.8     BSD/OS 4.2
141 |      |             |      |    v            |             |
142 |      |             |      |                 |             |
143 |      |           10.0  NetBSD 1.5           |             |
144 |   FreeBSD 4.3      |      |    |            |             v
145 |      |             |      |    v        OpenBSD 2.9
146 |      |             |      | NetBSD 1.5.1    |
147 |      |             |      |    |            |
148 |   FreeBSD 4.4      |      | NetBSD 1.5.2    |
149 |      |             |      |    |            |
150 |      |             |      |    v        OpenBSD 3.0
151 |   FreeBSD 4.5      |      |                 |
152 |      |             |      |                 |
153 |   FreeBSD 4.6      |      |                 |
154 |      |             |      |                 |
155 |      v             |      |                 |
156 |                    |      |                 |
157FreeBSD 5.0-current   |   NetBSD -current  OpenBSD -current
158 |                    |      |                 |
159 v                    |      v                 v
160                   Mac OS X
161                     10.1
162
163Time
164----------------
165
166Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
167was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
168
169[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
170	and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
171	the 4.4BSD Operating System.
172[APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
173[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
174[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
175[U25] Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25.
176[USE] Usenet announcement.
177[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
178	Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
179	Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
180[KB]  Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
181	Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
182[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
183	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
184[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
185[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
186[NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
187[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
188[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
189[BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
190
191Multics                 1965
192UNIX                    Summer 1969
193				DEC PDP-7
194First   Edition         1971-11-03 [QCU]
195				DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
196Second  Edition         1972-06-12 [QCU]
197				10 UNIX installations
198Third   Edition         1973-02-xx [QCU]
199				Pipes, 16 installations
200Fourth  Edition         1973-11-xx [QCU]
201				rewriting in C effected,
202                                above 30 installations
203Fifth   Edition         1974-06-xx [QCU]
204				above 50 installations
205Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
206				port to DEC Vax
207Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
208				first portable UNIX
209Eighth  Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
210				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
211				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
212				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
213			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
214			and networking part by the streams mechanism
215
216Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
217Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
218
2191BSD                    late 1977
220			1978-03-09 [QCU]
221				PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
222				30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
223				35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
2242BSD                    mid 1978 [QCU]
225				75 2BSD tapes shipped
2262.7.9BSD		?? [SMS]
2272.8BSD			1981-07-xx [KSJ]
228
2292.8.1BSD		1982-01-xx [QCU]
230				set of performance improvements
2312.9BSD			1983-07-xx [KSJ]
2322.9.1BSD                1983-11-xx
2332.9BSD-Seismo		1985-08-xx [SMS]
2342.10BSD			1987-04-xx [KKK]
2352.10.1BSD		1989-01-xx [SMS]
2362.11BSD			1992-02-xx [SMS]
2372.11BSD rev #430	1999-12-13 [SMS]
238
23932V			1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
2403BSD                    late 1979 [QCU]
241				virtual memory, page replacement,
242                        	demand paging
2434.0BSD                  1980-10-xx
2444.1BSD                  1981-07-08 [DOC]
2454.1aBSD                 1982-04-xx
246				alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
2474.1bBSD				internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
2484.1cBSD                 late 1982
249				beta release, IPC [44B]
2504.2BSD                  1983-09-xx [QCU]
251                        1983-08-03 [DOC]
2524.3BSD                  1986-06-xx [QCU]
253			1986-04-05 [KB], [DOC]
2544.3BSD Tahoe            1988-06-15 [QCU], [DOC]
2554.3BSD NET/1            1988-11-xx [QCU]
256                        1989-01-01 [DOC]
2574.3BSD Reno             1990-06-29 [QCU], [DOC]
2584.3BSD NET/2            1991-06-28 [QCU], [DOC]
259
260BSD/386 ALPHA		1991-12-xx [BSDI]
261				first code released to people outside BSDI
262386BSD 0.0              1992-02-xx [DOC]
263BSD/386 0.3.1	        1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
264BSD/386 0.3.3		1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
265386BSD 0.1              1992-07-28 [DOC]
2664.4BSD Alpha            1992-07-07
267BSD/386 0.9.3		1992-10-xx [BSDI]
268				first external gamma; G customers
269BSD/386 0.9.4		1992-12-xx [BSDI]
270				would have been 1.0 except for request
271				for preliminary injunction
272BSD/386 1.0 		1993-03-xx [BSDI]
273				injunction denied; first official release
274NetBSD 0.8              1993-04-20 [NBD]
2754.4BSD                  1993-06-01 [USE]
276NetBSD 0.9              1993-08-23 [NBD]
277FreeBSD 1.0		1993-11-01 [FBD]
278BSD/386 1.1		1994-02-xx [BSDI]
2794.4BSD Lite             1994-03-01 [USE]
280FreeBSD 1.1		1994-04-xx [FBD]
281FreeBSD 1.1.5.1		1994-07-xx [FBD]
282				supersedes 1.1.5 3 days after release.
283NetBSD 1.0              1994-10-26 [NBD]
284386BSD 1.0              1994-11-12 [USE]
285FreeBSD 2.0		1995-01-xx [FBD]
286BSD/OS 2.0		1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
287FreeBSD 2.0.5		1995-06-10 [FBD]
288BSD/OS 2.0.1		1995-06-xx [BSDI]
2894.4BSD Lite Release 2	1995-06-xx [44B]
290				the true final distribution from the CSRG
291FreeBSD 2.1.0		1995-11-19 [FBD]
292NetBSD 1.1              1995-11-26 [NBD]
293BSD/OS 2.1		1996-01-xx [BSDI]
294FreeBSD 2.1.5		1996-07-14 [FBD]
295NetBSD 1.2              1996-10-04 [NBD]
296OpenBSD 2.0             1996-10-18 [OBD]
297FreeBSD 2.1.6		1996-11-16 [FBD]
298FreeBSD 2.1.6.1		1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
299Rhapsody		1997-xx-xx
300FreeBSD 2.1.7		1997-02-20 [FBD]
301BSD/OS 3.0		1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
302FreeBSD 2.2.0		1997-03-16 [FBD]
303FreeBSD 2.2.1		1997-03-25 [FBD]
304FreeBSD 2.2.2		1997-05-16 [FBD]
305NetBSD 1.2.1            1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
306OpenBSD 2.1             1997-06-01 [OBD]
307FreeBSD 2.2.5		1997-10-22 [FBD]
308OpenBSD 2.2             1997-12-01 [OBD]
309NetBSD 1.3              1998-01-04 [NBD]
310FreeBSD 2.2.6		1998-03-25 [FBD]
311NetBSD 1.3.1            1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
312BSD/OS 3.1		1998-03-xx [BSDI]
313OpenBSD 2.3             1998-05-19 [OBD]
314NetBSD 1.3.2            1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
315FreeBSD 2.2.7		1998-07-22 [FBD]
316BSD/OS 4.0		1998-08-xx [BSDI]
317				2-lock MP support, ELF executables
318FreeBSD 3.0		1998-10-16 [FBD]
319				FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
320				while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
321				was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
322FreeBSD 2.2.8           1998-11-29 [FBD]
323OpenBSD 2.4             1998-12-01 [OBD]
324NetBSD 1.3.3            1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
325FreeBSD 3.1		1999-02-15 [FBD]
326BSD/OS 4.0.1		1999-03-xx [BSDI]
327NetBSD 1.4              1999-05-12 [NBD]
328FreeBSD 3.2             1999-05-17 [FBD]
329OpenBSD 2.5             1999-05-19 [OBD]
330NetBSD 1.4.1            1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
331FreeBSD 3.3             1999-09-17 [FBD]
332OpenBSD 2.6             1999-12-01 [OBD]
333FreeBSD 3.4             1999-12-20 [FBD]
334BSD/OS 4.1		1999-12-xx [BSDI]
335FreeBSD 4.0             2000-03-13 [FBD]
336NetBSD 1.4.2            2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
337OpenBSD 2.7             2000-06-15 [OBD]
338FreeBSD 3.5		2000-06-24 [FBD]
339FreeBSD 4.1		2000-07-27 [FBD]
340FreeBSD 3.5.1		2000-07-28 [FBD]
341FreeBSD 4.1.1		2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
342FreeBSD 4.2  		2000-11-21 [FBD]
343NetBSD 1.4.3		2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
344BSD/OS 4.2		2000-11-29 [BSDI]
345OpenBSD 2.8		2000-12-01 [OBD]
346NetBSD 1.5              2000-12-06 [NBD]
347Mac OS X 10.0           2001-03-24 [APL]
348FreeBSD 4.3  		2001-04-20 [FBD]
349OpenBSD 2.9  		2001-06-01 [OBD]
350NetBSD 1.5.1		2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
351NetBSD 1.5.2		2001-09-13 [NBD] (patch release)
352FreeBSD 4.4  		2001-09-18 [FBD]
353Mac OS X 10.1		2001-09-xx [APL]
354OpenBSD 3.0		2001-12-01 [OBD]
355FreeBSD 4.5  		2002-01-29 [FBD]
356FreeBSD 4.6  		2002-06-xx [FBD]
357
358
359Bibliography
360------------------------
361
362Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
363Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
364System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
365
366Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
367Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
368
369McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
370Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
371System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4
372
373Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
374
375Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
376Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
377Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
378
379Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
380URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm (unreachable)
381
382Andreas Klemm, Lars K�ller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
383Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
384
385BSD Release Announcements collection.
386URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/
387
388BSD Hypertext Man Pages
389URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
390
391UNIX history graphing project
392URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
393
394UNIX history
395URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/
396
397James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
398URL: http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
399("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
400
401
402Acknowledgments
403---------------
404
405Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
406original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
407
408Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
409
410--
411Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
412URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
413
414$FreeBSD$
415