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Episode 99 - The Berkeley Software Distribution

Advent of Computing

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The Story of X and UNIX Software at UC Berkeley

By 1977, UC Berkeley had a good pile of in-house UNIX software. X would be used to finish whipping Thompson's Pescall pileer into shape. The package is pretty well preserved, so we can take a look at it today. A-Shell appears to be some sort of custom command shell. Trek is a pretty well-known computer game.

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