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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 |      |           10.0  NetBSD 1.5           |             |
142 |   FreeBSD 4.3      |      |    |            |             v
143 |      |             |      |    v        OpenBSD 2.9
144 |      |             |      | NetBSD 1.5.1    |
145 |      v             |      |                 |
146 |                    |      |                 |
147FreeBSD 5.0-current   |   NetBSD -current  OpenBSD -current
148 |                    |      |                 |
149 v                    |      v                 v
150                   Mac OS X
151                     10.1
152
153Time
154----------------
155
156Time tolerance +/- 6 months, depending on which book/article you read; if it
157was the announcement in Usenet or if it was available as tape.
158
159[44B] McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels,
160	and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of
161	the 4.4BSD Operating System.
162[APL] Apple website [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]
163[DOC] README, COPYRIGHT on tape.
164[QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX.
165[U25] Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25.
166[USE] Usenet announcement.
167[KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz.
168	Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software
169	Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983.
170[KB]  Keith Bostic. BSD2.10 available from Usenix. comp.unix.sources,
171	Volume 11, Info 4, April, 1987.
172[KKK] Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and Keith Bostic. tahoe announcement.
173	comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, June 15, 1988.
174[SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11.
175[FBD] FreeBSD Project, The.
176[NBD] NetBSD Project, The.
177[OBD] OpenBSD Project, The.
178[dmr] Dennis Ritchie, via E-Mail
179[BSDI] Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
180
181Multics                 1965
182UNIX                    Summer 1969
183				DEC PDP-7
184First   Edition         1971-11-03 [QCU]
185				DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
186Second  Edition         1972-06-12 [QCU]
187				10 UNIX installations
188Third   Edition         1973-02-xx [QCU]
189				Pipes, 16 installations
190Fourth  Edition         1973-11-xx [QCU]
191				rewriting in C effected,
192                                above 30 installations
193Fifth   Edition         1974-06-xx [QCU]
194				above 50 installations
195Sixth   Edition         1975-05-xx [QCU]
196				port to DEC Vax
197Seventh Edition         1979-01-xx [QCU]
198				first portable UNIX
199Eighth  Edition         1985-02-xx [QCU]
200				VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780 [dmr]
201				descended from 4.1c BSD [dmr]
202				descended from 4.1 BSD [44B]
203			scooping-out and replacement of the character-device
204			and networking part by the streams mechanism
205
206Ninth   Edition         1986-09-xx [QCU]
207Tenth   Edition         1989-10-xx [QCU]
208
2091BSD                    late 1977
210			1978-03-09 [QCU]
211				PDP-11, Pascal, ex(1)
212				30 free copies of 1BSD sent out
213				35 tapes sold for 50 USD [QCU]
2142BSD                    mid 1978 [QCU]
215				75 2BSD tapes shipped
2162.7.9BSD		?? [SMS]
2172.8BSD			1981-07-xx [KSJ]
218
2192.8.1BSD		1982-01-xx [QCU]
220				set of performance improvements
2212.9BSD			1983-07-xx [KSJ]
2222.9.1BSD                1983-11-xx
2232.9BSD-Seismo		1985-08-xx [SMS]
2242.10BSD			1987-04-xx [KKK]
2252.10.1BSD		1989-01-xx [SMS]
2262.11BSD			1992-02-xx [SMS]
2272.11BSD rev #430	1999-12-13 [SMS]
228
22932V			1978-1[01]-xx [QCU]
2303BSD                    late 1979 [QCU]
231				virtual memory, page replacement,
232                        	demand paging
2334.0BSD                  1980-10-xx
2344.1BSD                  1981-06-xx
2354.1aBSD                 1982-04-xx
236				alpha release, 100 sites, networking [44B]
2374.1bBSD				internal release, fast filesystem [44B]
2384.1cBSD                 late 1982
239				beta release, IPC [44B]
2404.2BSD                  1983-09-xx [QCU]
2414.3BSD                  1986-06-xx [QCU]
242			1986-04-xx [KB]
2434.3BSD Tahoe            1988-06-xx [QCU]
2444.3BSD NET/1            1988-11-xx [QCU]
2454.3BSD Reno             1990-06-xx [QCU], [DOC]
2464.3BSD NET/2            1991-06-xx [QCU]
247
248BSD/386 ALPHA		1991-12-xx [BSDI]
249				first code released to people outside BSDI
250386BSD 0.0              1992-02-xx [DOC]
251BSD/386 0.3.1	        1992-04-xx [BSDI] first ext. beta; B customers
252BSD/386 0.3.3		1992-06-xx [BSDI] first CDROM version
253386BSD 0.1              1992-07-28 [DOC]
2544.4BSD Alpha            1992-07-07
255BSD/386 0.9.3		1992-10-xx [BSDI]
256				first external gamma; G customers
257BSD/386 0.9.4		1992-12-xx [BSDI]
258				would have been 1.0 except for request
259				for preliminary injunction
260BSD/386 1.0 		1993-03-xx [BSDI]
261				injunction denied; first official release
262NetBSD 0.8              1993-04-20 [NBD]
2634.4BSD                  1993-06-01 [USE]
264NetBSD 0.9              1993-08-23 [NBD]
265FreeBSD 1.0		1993-11-01 [FBD]
266BSD/386 1.1		1994-02-xx [BSDI]
2674.4BSD Lite             1994-03-01 [USE]
268FreeBSD 1.1		1994-04-xx [FBD]
269FreeBSD 1.1.5.1		1994-07-xx [FBD]
270				supersedes 1.1.5 3 days after release.
271NetBSD 1.0              1994-10-26 [NBD]
272386BSD 1.0              1994-11-12 [USE]
273FreeBSD 2.0		1995-01-xx [FBD]
274BSD/OS 2.0		1995-01-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite based
275FreeBSD 2.0.5		1995-06-10 [FBD]
276BSD/OS 2.0.1		1995-06-xx [BSDI]
2774.4BSD Lite Release 2	1995-06-xx [44B]
278				the true final distribution from the CSRG
279FreeBSD 2.1.0		1995-11-19 [FBD]
280NetBSD 1.1              1995-11-26 [NBD]
281BSD/OS 2.1		1996-01-xx [BSDI]
282FreeBSD 2.1.5		1996-07-14 [FBD]
283NetBSD 1.2              1996-10-04 [NBD]
284OpenBSD 2.0             1996-10-18 [OBD]
285FreeBSD 2.1.6		1996-11-16 [FBD]
286FreeBSD 2.1.6.1		1996-11-25 [FBD] (sendmail security release)
287Rhapsody		1997-xx-xx
288FreeBSD 2.1.7		1997-02-20 [FBD]
289BSD/OS 3.0		1997-02-xx [BSDI] 4.4 lite2 based
290FreeBSD 2.2.0		1997-03-16 [FBD]
291FreeBSD 2.2.1		1997-03-25 [FBD]
292FreeBSD 2.2.2		1997-05-16 [FBD]
293NetBSD 1.2.1            1997-05-20 [NBD] (patch release)
294OpenBSD 2.1             1997-06-01 [OBD]
295FreeBSD 2.2.5		1997-10-22 [FBD]
296OpenBSD 2.2             1997-12-01 [OBD]
297NetBSD 1.3              1998-01-04 [NBD]
298FreeBSD 2.2.6		1998-03-25 [FBD]
299NetBSD 1.3.1            1998-03-09 [NBD] (patch release)
300BSD/OS 3.1		1998-03-xx [BSDI]
301OpenBSD 2.3             1998-05-19 [OBD]
302NetBSD 1.3.2            1998-05-29 [NBD] (patch release)
303FreeBSD 2.2.7		1998-07-22 [FBD]
304BSD/OS 4.0		1998-08-xx [BSDI]
305				2-lock MP support, ELF executables
306FreeBSD 3.0		1998-10-16 [FBD]
307				FreeBSD-3.0 is a snapshot from -current,
308				while 3.1 and 3.2 are from 3.x-stable which
309				was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
310FreeBSD 2.2.8           1998-11-29 [FBD]
311OpenBSD 2.4             1998-12-01 [OBD]
312NetBSD 1.3.3            1998-12-23 [NBD] (patch release)
313FreeBSD 3.1		1999-02-15 [FBD]
314BSD/OS 4.0.1		1999-03-xx [BSDI]
315NetBSD 1.4              1999-05-12 [NBD]
316FreeBSD 3.2             1999-05-17 [FBD]
317OpenBSD 2.5             1999-05-19 [OBD]
318NetBSD 1.4.1            1999-08-26 [NBD] (patch release)
319FreeBSD 3.3             1999-09-17 [FBD]
320OpenBSD 2.6             1999-12-01 [OBD]
321FreeBSD 3.4             1999-12-20 [FBD]
322BSD/OS 4.1		1999-12-xx [BSDI]
323FreeBSD 4.0             2000-03-13 [FBD]
324NetBSD 1.4.2            2000-03-19 [NBD] (patch release)
325OpenBSD 2.7             2000-06-15 [OBD]
326FreeBSD 3.5		2000-06-24 [FBD]
327FreeBSD 4.1		2000-07-27 [FBD]
328FreeBSD 3.5.1		2000-07-28 [FBD]
329FreeBSD 4.1.1		2000-09-25 [FBD] (a network-only patch release)
330FreeBSD 4.2  		2000-11-21 [FBD]
331NetBSD 1.4.3		2000-11-25 [NBD] (patch release)
332BSD/OS 4.2		2000-11-29 [BSDI]
333OpenBSD 2.8		2000-12-01 [OBD]
334NetBSD 1.5              2000-12-06 [NBD]
335Mac OS X 10.0           2001-03-24 [APL]
336FreeBSD 4.3  		2001-04-20 [FBD]
337OpenBSD 2.9  		2001-06-01 [OBD]
338NetBSD 1.5.1		2001-07-11 [NBD] (patch release)
339Mac OS X 10.1		2001-09-xx [APL]
340
341
342Bibliography
343------------------------
344
345Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John
346Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
347System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1
348
349Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing
350Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
351
352McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John
353Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
354System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4
355
356Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader.
357
358Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
359Presented to the Tasmanian Unix Special Interest Group of the
360Australian Computer Society, Hobart, August 1993.
361
362Peter H. Salus. Unix at 25. Byte Magazine, October 1994.
363URL: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm (unreachable)
364
365Andreas Klemm, Lars K�ller. If you're going to San Francisco ...
366Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix. c't April 1997, page 368ff.
367
368BSD Release Announcements collection.
369URL: http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/
370
371BSD Hypertext Man Pages
372URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi
373
374UNIX history graphing project
375URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Unix_History/index.html
376
377UNIX history
378URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/
379
380James Howard: The BSD Family Tree
381URL: http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
382("what are the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?")
383
384
385Acknowledgments
386---------------
387
388Josh Gilliam for suggestions, bug fixes, and finding very old
389original BSD announcements from Usenet or tapes.
390
391Steven M. Schultz for providing 2.8BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD manual pages.
392
393--
394Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>
395URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
396
397$FreeBSD$
398