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02 Nov 2026, 9:59 AM	Hacker News	3.0	F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix Part 3 of the F/OSS Comics BSD Unix series covers 1977-78: Bill Joy bundled the Pascal system with ex into the first Berkeley Software Distribution, sending about 30 tapes in its first year, then shipped 2BSD with vi and the C shell to nearly 75 tapes — each requiring an AT&T Unix source license, with Berkeley charging only for tape and postage. When a VAX arrived at Berkeley in 1978, graduate student Ozalp Babaoglu worked on adding virtual memory to Bell Labs' 32/V, with Joy helping integrate and debug the code. Why: There is no actionable takeaway here for anyone shipping software today — this is a historical comic, not a release, incident, or measurement. The one detail worth noting is structural: BSD could only spread because recipients already held an AT&T Unix source license, and AT&T's antitrust agreement barred it from selling Unix as a product, so distribution ran on tapes and postage rather than a product business. Read it as background on why permissive redistribution and license terms shape adoption, not as guidance for current projects. open-source unix software-history dev-community

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02 Nov 2026, 9:59 AM

Hacker News

3.0

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

Part 3 of the F/OSS Comics BSD Unix series covers 1977-78: Bill Joy bundled the Pascal system with ex into the first Berkeley Software Distribution, sending about 30 tapes in its first year, then shipped 2BSD with vi and the C shell to nearly 75 tapes — each requiring an AT&T Unix source license, with Berkeley charging only for tape and postage. When a VAX arrived at Berkeley in 1978, graduate student Ozalp Babaoglu worked on adding virtual memory to Bell Labs' 32/V, with Joy helping integrate and debug the code.

Why: There is no actionable takeaway here for anyone shipping software today — this is a historical comic, not a release, incident, or measurement. The one detail worth noting is structural: BSD could only spread because recipients already held an AT&T Unix source license, and AT&T's antitrust agreement barred it from selling Unix as a product, so distribution ran on tapes and postage rather than a product business. Read it as background on why permissive redistribution and license terms shape adoption, not as guidance for current projects.