Jun 10 – 14, 2025
University of Ottawa
Canada/Eastern timezone

A History of the BSD Daemon

Jun 13, 2025, 4:00 PM
50m
DMS 1160

DMS 1160

Lecture 50 min Experiences Talks: Room 1160

Speaker

Marshall Kirk McKusick (McKusick Consultancy)

Description

This talk tells the history of the BSD Daemon. It starts with the first renditions in the 1970s of the daemons that help UNIX systems provide services to users. These early daemons were the inspiration for the well-known daemon created by John Lasseter in the early 1980s that became synonymous with BSD as they adorned the covers of the first three editions of `The Design and Implementation of the BSD Operating System' textbooks. The talk will also highlight many of the shirt designs that featured the BSD Daemon.

One-line summary A History of the BSD Daemon

Primary author

Marshall Kirk McKusick (McKusick Consultancy)

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