I have been a long time developer of the Berkeley Software Distributions (BSD). My involvement started in 1976, at the University of California at Berkeley. I got drawn in as an office-mate of Bill Joy, who single-handedly wrote the code for BSD and then started handling its release. Bill went on to run the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) which developed and released the first fully complete BSD distributions. After Bill’s departure to become a founder of Sun Microsystems, I eventually rose to head the CSRG and oversee the release of the freely redistributable . The distribution forms the basis for all the freely distributable variants.
