A History of BSD, from Berkeley to 4.4BSD-Lite

bsdconferences · Talk · YouTube title: A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick

Why it's here

Recommended as an engaging, non-technical history of Unix and BSD from someone who was there, and cited for specific stories like the TCP/IP stack.

What it covers

Kirk McKusick gives a narrative history of BSD from its start at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s through the 1980s releases and the lawsuit that led to 4.4BSD-Lite in 1992. It is full of anecdotes from a key developer.