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Originally Posted by Quoth
But the Universities thought they had done most of the work and that Bell "stole" it. Which is why BSD and GNU were started.
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I most certainly never heard that. And I worked at UC Berkeley where BSD came from.
BSD was a project to add virtual memory to Unix. At the time V7 Unix ran on the DEC PDP11 and VAX11. The VAX11 had the necessary stuff to do virtual memory but V7 Unix on it was the same as on the PDP11; no virtual memory. Bell Labs did eventually add virtual memory to V7 Unix but by then BSD was on all the VAX11s running Unix.
Gnu was Richard Stallman's free software thing. It came out several years after BSD came out. For the longest time there wasn't even an operating system, just all of the various programs, compilers, and whatnot.