The UNIX system has been in wide use for over 20 years, and has helped to define many areas of computing.
list in order of importance:
- DARPA (the principal direct-funding organization)
- users
- companies
- universities
- worldwide
The Berkeley researchers accepted not only ideas from the user community, but also actual software.
not only patents, but also labor
Contributions to 4BSD came from universities and other
organizations in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States.
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although licensing and pricing considerations prevented the use of any actual code from System III or System V in 4BSD.
most suspicious possible way to say this
In addition to contributions that were included in the distributions proper, the CSRG also distributed a set of user-contributed software.
can't tell if i like this better than just feeding it to corpslop. i think it's nice to do this
omg again
An example of a community-developed facility is the public-domain timezone-handling package that was adopted with the 4.3BSD Tahoe release.
- "community-developed"
- "public-domain"
It was designed and implemented by an international group, including Arthur Olson, Robert Elz, and Guy Harris, partly because of discussions in the USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix.
this guy needs to make sure the reader understands that they were all white men. none of that funny international stuff
This package takes time-zone-conversion rules completely
out of the C library, putting them in files that require no system-code changes to change time-zone rules; this change is especially useful with binary-only distributions of UNIX.
UNIX innovation used files as input
The method also allows individual processes to choose rules, rather than keeping one ruleset specification systemwide.
ominous
The distribution includes a large database of rules used in many areas throughout the world, from China to Australia to Europe.
ok first time non-white country mentioned
Distributions of the 4.4BSD system are thus simplified because it is not necessary to have the software set up differently for different destinations, as long as the whole database is included.
i can't understand this. he is awestruck by files
The adoption of the time-zone package into BSD brought the technology to the attention of commercial vendors, such as Sun Microsystems, causing them to incorporate it into their systems.
yo rip my first programming teacher worked on java there he rocked
Berkeley solicited electronic mail about bugs and the proposed fixes.
Few ideas were accepted by Berkeley directly from these newsgroups' associated mailing lists because of the difficulty of sifting through the voluminous submissions.
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Later, a moderated newsgroup dedicated to the CSRG-sanctioned fixes to such bugs,
that's right
The developers considered many design issues as they wrote the system.
There were nontraditional considerations and inputs into the design,
sorry i think this author is evil
which nevertheless yielded results with commercial importance.
oh yeah like astral sold my zip files to openai
The early systems were technology driven.
The motivation for providing networking support was primarily DARPA's interest in connecting their researchers through the 56-Kbit-per-second ARPA Internet
ok now this is just a mystery to me
No attempt was made to provide a true distributed operating system
ok nvm i looked it up this shit rocks!! https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall03/cs518/papers/locus.pdf
An important part of the LOCUS research concerns recovery from failures of parts of the system,
yeah dude DARPA hates that kinda shit this is literally and exactly what pouzin was onto with CYCLADES
