McKusick Tells of the BSD Days As Only He Can

“The drought of those who speak without depending on slides has ended at the 12th Australian national Linux conference. Last evening, Marshall Kirk McKusick, a well-known BSD hacker, took those assembled down a slightly different track – after all, this is a Linux conference – with his narrative history of BSD. And what a rollicking ride it was! […] And the venue for his talk could hold only 100 people. He based his talk on notes he had made while travelling through Australia on a train in 1986 – he was a keynote speaker at the now-defunct Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group conference in 1986.”

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