In message , Pertti Kellomaki writes
It has been discussed before that had Berkeley released BSD UNIX only 6 months previously (apparently it was to do with missing a meeting of the Regents that made it happen 6 months late) Linux would never have got anywhere. BSD would have been the phenomenon Linux became
As it was BSD came out in the shadow of the Linux explosion
"I really mean BSD Unix, not the TCP/IP specification"
This claim is a bit of a stretch. The groundwork for the TCP layer as set at a meeting in the fall of 1973. TCP/IP was running a year and a half later. By 1984 TCP/IP was already widely available for anything with enough computing power to be be connected to a network.
Regards,
-- Walter Banks Byte Craft Limited
I am willing to be educated, but my understanding is that even though TCP/IP was available on other systems, the proliferation of BSD in universities significantly fueled the expansion of the internet.
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