F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix history
The gist
Bill Joy bundled a Pascal system with the ex editor into BSD in early 1977.
The comic traces how that student distribution grew into a virtual-memory Unix release.
How it unfolded
- 1976After Ken Thompson returned to Bell Labs, Bill Joy and Chuck Haley began exploring and improving the Unix kernel themselves.
- early 1977Joy put together the Berkeley Software Distribution, bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.
- 1977 -1978About thirty copies of the first BSD were sent out over the following year.