Bill Joy Bob Fabry founded the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979.

The BSD software developed at CSRG helped spawn the Open Source movement and facilitated the explosion of the internet.

COMIT was a character manipulation language designed by Bob's research advisor Victor Yngve that was eventually overshadowed by SNOBOL.

Ken Thompson, who created Unix at Bell Labs and had graduated from Berkeley, became a visiting professor in the fall of 1975.

This first distribution included a Pascal compiler and the VI editor and began to give Berkeley a good reputation for providing Unix enhancements.

[1][3][5] In June 1983, Bob Fabry turned over administration of CSRG to Professors Domenico Ferrari and Susan L. Graham and began a sabbatical free from the frantic pace of the previous four years.