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Before 386bsd: The Symmetric 375 Computer and Berkeley Unix
October 11, 2003. Vintage Computer Festival 2003. Computer History Museum. Before 386bsd: The Symmetric 375 Computer and Berkeley Unix, William F. (Bill) Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz . Symmetric Computer Systems, a venture-funded company founded in 1982 by William Jolitz, was a contender in the hot race to produce a personal BSD Unix system. The Symmetric 375 was the first system out the door with hardware floating point and virtual memory, beating Sun by years. It was the first system with open source supplied, integrated, and tested, from EMACS to SPICE for use in scientific and engineering work. And it was the first to ship systems with all software fully installed and tested, ready for use immediately. Join William and Lynne as they discuss the design and development of the 375 computer and its influence on 386BSD - the first open source BSD system for the X86 released a decade later. See the article “Talk About Legacy Machines”. |