Most folks don’t realize it, but BSD greatly contributed to modern computing. Linux, macOS, iOS, and gaming consoles or streaming service are the most successful examples that borrowed ideas and code from the BSD world directly or indirectly. Even at one point windows used networking stuff from BSD world. How often do you ssh into servers and network devices? That code comes from the BSD world too.
Did you know? The “ping” command, commonly used to test network connectivity, was developed by Mike Muuss in 1983 for BSD Unix and later became standard in Linux and other operating systems such as Windows and others. Check his Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Muuss and my page about ping command https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-ping-command-examples/ examples for more info. #linux #unix #macos #freebsd #history #opensource
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