Computer Systems Research Group was a research group that was dedicated to enhancing AT&T Unix operating system and funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It had licensed the source code from AT&T early in the 70s, but as the operating system became very popular, AT&T jacked up the licensing fee. This became very controversal, and the computer systems research group set up a goal for themself to replace all the source code that originated from AT&T. The group works went by the name BSD, and the last release from the group was called 4.4BSD-lite. The group was disbanded after it lost financing. It is sometime suspected that the loss of the financing could have something to do with AT&T, as the two organizations were not in good terms at that point.
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ComputerSystemsResearchGroup was a researchgroup that was dedicated to enhancing ATandT Unix operating system and funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The group had licensed the source code from ATandT early in the 70s, but as the operating system became very popular, ATandT jacked up the licensing fee.
The group works went by the name BSD, and the last release from the group was called 4.4BSD-lite.
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