BSD/OS

BSD/OS
DeveloperBerkeley Software Design, Inc. (1991–2001)
Wind River Systems (2001–2003)
Written inC
OS familyUnix-like (Net/2)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelSource-available
Initial releaseBSD/386 1.0, March 1993 (1993-03)
Latest releaseBSD/OS 5.1 / 2003 (2003)
Marketing targetInternet server applications
Available inEnglish
Platformsx86, SPARC, PowerPC
Kernel typeMonolithic
Default
user interface
Command-line interface
LicenseProprietary

BSD/OS is a proprietary Unix operating system first released in 1993 as BSD/386. It was originally developed and sold by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi) and designed to be a Unix for 386-based PCs. It was built off the Net/2 distribution of BSD, on which the developers had previously contributed to.[1]

Eventually the operating system was also ported to support PowerPC and SPARC architectures, and consequently was retitled to BSD/OS as of version 2.0 (1995). In 2001, BSDi sold the rights of the OS to Wind River Systems who developed and released version 5.0 in 2003 before discontinuing the product.

  1. ^ Levitt, Jason; Schuman, Evan (June 22, 1992). "For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara". Open Systems Today.

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