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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
...BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution, not System...
Yes, it does. Thanks for the correction.

As FreeMan can tell, Unix and Unix-like systems have a long and colorful history.

I was a user of Multics in the mid 1970s; many consider it the "precursor" of Unix. I remember clearly reading the user's manual: Chapter 1 was how to log on, Chapter 2 was all about something initially very confusing regarding data storage, called "tree structures."

I think my first use of Unix was around 1981 or 1983; I can't recall the exact year. Everything after the 1960s is fuzzy anyway.
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