meaning of berkeley network

1. Berkeley Network B-NET Top level Unix Ethernet software developed at the University of California at Berkeley. There are no formal specifications but UCBs 4. 2BSD Unix implementation on the VAX is the de facto standard. Distributed by Unisoft. Includes net. o driver routines for specific hardware, pseudo ttys, daemons, hostname command to set/get name, /etc/hosts database of names and Internet addresses of other hosts, /etc/hosts. equiv host-wide database to control remote access, . rhosts per user version of hosts. equiv. UCBs implementation of the Internet Protocol includes trailers to improve performance on paged memory management systems such as VAXen. These trailers are an exception to the Internet Protocol specification. Berkeley Quality Software Often abbreviated "BQS" Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem. It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it. This term was frequently applied to early versions of the "dbx1" debugger. See also Berzerkeley. [Jargon File]

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