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OpenBSD: A short history

Descended from 'BSD Unix' - Berkeley Software Distribution 

CSRG at UC Berkeley 1974 (also Ken Thompson's 1975 sabbatical) -> active development until c 1992

Home of the TCP/IP reference implementation

CSRG DARPA research funding ended c 1992, initial 386BSD (Jolitz et al 1991-1992) spawned FreeBSD (BSD on PC architecture) and NetBSD (BSD on anything), BSDI (commercial - 1-800-ITS-UNIX generated USL vs BSDI lawsuit, settled 1994)

OpenBSD forked from NetBSD 1995 (tree created Oct 18, 1995)

The first project to provide anonymous, public CVS - See code change in real time!