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Jolitz Heritage Site - Chronicling the Legacies of the Jolitz Family of Silicon Valley, including the accomplishments of William Jolitz, Lynne Jolitz, Rebecca Jolitz, Ben Jolitz, and William Leonard Jolitz.

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1 Operating System Source Code Secrets Volume 1: The Basic Kernel
Operating System Source Code Secrets Volume 1: The Basic Kernel

by William Frederick Jolitz (Systemverwaltung durch Tabellen
8/91 UNIX Magazin, Germany: Systemverwaltung durch Tabellen, and

3 Origins of 386BSD

William and Lynne Jolitz were inspired to work on 386BSD by the experience with Symmetric Computer Systems (see "William Jolitz and Symmetric Computer Systems") and the uses of BSD on a ubiquitous platform it inspired. BSD needed to jump to the 386. According to the website (see the_past() - name_origin):

In looking for the good, the simplest spanning name to grab mindshare was chosen. Just as Windows and UNIX have been named the same all along, saw no need in any different name. Others, in attempting to look for the bad, chose to narrowly view the name as applying to a specific chip to force an unearned claim of obsolescence. Inside all of them, the machine dependant names are all "386".

4 Designing a Software Specification
1/91 Dr. Dobbs Journal, USA: PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: DESIGNING THE SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION,
5 Lynne Jolitz and copyright

Lynne Jolitz, writer and technologist, was not only the co-creator of the 386BSD operating system - the first open source Berkeley Unix release for the X86 platform - she was also a leader in the fight for the Berkeley open source copyright. Since her days as an executive at Symmetric Computer Systems, one of the first BSD UNIX startups, Lynne has always sung the praises of the great university work called the Berkeley Software Distribution. Of course, Berkeley is also Lynne's alma-mater, and its influence on academic achievement and battles for academic freedom is also strongly felt. Her ringing endorsement of the Berkeley open source copyright and her own corporate experience, Copyright, Copyleft, and Competitive Advantage appeared in Dr. Dobbs Journal as part of PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: LANGUAGE TOOLS CROSS SUPPORT a decade before the legal community found it fashionable dinner conversation.

6 Vintage Computer Faire 2002
October 26, 2002. "Looking for Symmetric 375", "met Mr. and Mrs. Jolitz, who did the first work on porting BSD Unix to the 386" at Vintage Computer Faire 2002. NASA Ames Research Center. Showed the original Symmetric Computer Systems operational running wire-wrap (20,000 connections, 25x22 inch board) Proto I computer (in the case) from 1983. Also showed a final production unit operational with 4.3BSD SYMMETRIX from 1987. Discussion and display board on “Funding a Systems Startup” about Symmetric Computer Systems, a venture-backed company founded by William Jolitz in 1982.
7 Language Tools Cross Support
4/91 Dr. Dobbs Journal, USA: Language Tools Cross Support, and The Standalone System
3/91 Dr. Dobbs Journal, USA: The Standalone System, and
9 A Stripped-Down Kernel
7/91 Dr. Dobbs Journal, USA: A Stripped-Down Kernel, and Ly ...
10 The Final Step: Running Light with 386bsd
7/92 Dr. Dobbs Journal, USA: The Final Step: Running Light with 386BSD, and [ >>> ]
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