Name The UNIX Derivative OS Named After A Famous University?

The UNIX derivative operating system Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD for short) is named after the University of California, Berkeley. It is also known as Berkeley UNIX. The University of California, Berkeley started distributing this operating system in the 1970's.

BSD is one of the well-known branches of UNIX operating systems. The first version of BSD, abbreviated as 1BSD, was developed in 1977 by Bill Joy, who was then a graduate student at the prestigious university.

Joy developed the second version of BSD the following year. An improved version of the second Berkeley Software Distribution operating system, 2.11BSD was developed in 1992, and ran successfully until 2003. Its creator, William Nelson Joy (better known as Bill Joy) was born in 1954, and co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, along with three fellow venture capitalists Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim. Joy served as the chief scientist at Sun Microsystems until 2003.

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