A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick

EDIT: Watch this video for details! [VIDEO] Key quotes around 8:30 - 9:00, but the whole thing is excellent. DARPA was funding all sorts of different networking and operating systems, which in those days were all incompatible. But they wanted them to cooperate, hence open source BSD and the Internet. Silicon Valley doesn't get this kind of cooperation. In stark contrast, a proven business tactic is to undermine cooperation by poisoning open standards (e.g. embrace and extend).

BSDs, game design and computer history: — [LINK] collects talks from various BSD conferences. An interesting non-technical talk from the collection is "A Narrative History of BSD" by Marshall Kirk McKusick ( [VIDEO] ). — [LINK] — lectures on game design and development by Chris Crawford ( Balance of Power , The Art of Computer Game Design ) uploaded by the man himself. "The Dragon Speech" of his can be found elsewhere on YouTube ( [LINK] ). — [LINK] — early computer graphics demo reels, mostly from the '80s.

There is a talk by Kirk McKusick on YouTube[1] where he tells about that time, and IIRC, Bill Joy got his hands on an early version of BBN's code, started hacking on it and put it into BSD. BBN and DARPA were not very amused, but by the time BBN's stack was finished, the BSD version had better performance and/or lower packet loss, so it stuck. Apparently Mike Muuss compared the two implementations, and his recommendation to go with Bill Joy's code was the decisive factor. [1] [VIDEO] - I think that's the one

If you have some time to refresh memory. "A Narrative History of BSD by Dr. Kirk McKusick" [VIDEO] "Unix came into many CS departments largely because it was the only powerful interactive system that could run on the sort of hardware (PDP-11s) that universities could afford in the mid '70s. In addition, Unix itself was also very inexpensive. Since source code was provided, it was a system that could be shaped to the requirements of a particular installation." [LINK]