Cal Berkeley

The University of California at Berkeley, www.berkeley.edu , is the origin of such "dead-end" technologies as TCP/IP, vi, c shell, Bsd Os, Ingres, rogue and, well, tons of other stuff. The X Window System and Emacs were invented somewhere else (The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology). The term

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

-- Jeremy S. Anderson

The term Cal is most commonly used in a sports context, such as "Cal is the underdog against USC next Saturday", referring to a football game. In academic conversation, people usually say "Berkeley" or maybe "UC Berkeley".

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