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Update this excellent article to refer to BSD/OS in the past tense and

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briefly note its demise.  While here, also correct a recent typo.
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<ulink url="http://www.bsdi.com/">Berkeley Software Design Inc.</ulink>
and released a beta version of an operating system called
<ulink url="http://www.bsdi.com/">BSD/386</ulink>, which was based on
the same sources. The name of the operating system has since changed
the same sources. The name of the operating system was later changed
to BSD/OS.</para>
<para>386BSD never became a stable operating system. Instead, two other
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<ulink url="http://www.OpenBSD.org/">OpenBSD</ulink> split off from
NetBSD, and in 2003,
<ulink url="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFlyBSD</ulink> split
of from FreeBSD.</para>
off from FreeBSD.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>BSD/OS is the oldest of the 4.4BSD derivatives. It
is not open source, though source code licenses are available at
relatively low cost. It resembles FreeBSD in many ways.</para>
<para>BSD/OS was the oldest of the 4.4BSD derivatives. It
was not open source, though source code licenses were
available at relatively low cost. It resembled FreeBSD in
many ways. Two years after the acquisition of BSDi by
Wind River Systems, BSD/OS failed to survive as an
independent product. Support and source code may still
be available from Wind River, but all new development is
focused on the VxWorks embedded operating system.</para>
</listitem>
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<sect2>
<title>Who provides support, service, and training for BSD?</title>
<para>BSDi have always supported BSD/OS, and they have recently
announced support contracts for FreeBSD.</para>
<para>BSDi / <ulink url="http://www.freebsdmall.com">FreeBSD
Mall, Inc.</ulink> have been providing support contracts for
FreeBSD for nearly a decade.</para>
<para>In addition, each of the projects has a list of consultants for
hire: