We had the Fourth Berkeley System Distribution (BSD) in 1981 when I started at the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab. There were earlier ones for PDP-11. We ran it on one of the first VAX 780s to leave Digital. It's the one that gets taken apart in "The Soul of a New Machine". I have the front panel of Pixar's VAX-780 on my office wall.
There were about a dozen people in Cory Hall on the Berkeley campus who were doing the ARPA contract to add virtual memory and other features that were important for image processing and computer graphics to Unix. I got to Pixar in 1987 and all of the BSD folks except for Bill Joy were members or guests of the Pixar ski cabin. Bill Joy could afford his own mountain by then.
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