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I wonder how many different computing projects and companies have been named after Berkeley, California, or its namesake university, over the decades. The most well-known is probably the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix variant. Then there's its commercial offshoot, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi). In the 80s and 90s, there was Berkeley Systems, known for the After Dark screen savers for Macintosh, but also creators of the first ever GUI screen reader, OutSpoken, in 1989.
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I'm reading _Dealers of Lightning_ by Michael Hiltzik, about Xerox PARC, and I learned about another company, Berkeley Computer Corporation, that developed an ambitious time-sharing computer from 1968 to 1970 or 1971. Some notable PARC folks, including Butler Lampson, Chuck Thacker (designer of PARC's Alto hardware), and Peter Deutsch, first teamed up at Berkeley Computer Corp.
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There’s also the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, or #BOINC for short. One of the first scientific distributed computing networks, and it is still going strong these days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley…

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