American software programmer

William Frederick Jolitz (February 22, 1957 – March 2, 2022), commonly known as Bill Jolitz, was an American software engineer best known for developing the 386BSD operating system from 1989 to 1994 along with his wife Lynne Jolitz.

Before 386BSD, Bill Jolitz designed the Symmetric 375 (http://www.berklix.com/symmetric/), a BSD 4.2 (History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.2BSD), with an NSC16032 (NS32000) CPU, his Symmetric Computer Systems sold them in 1987-1988.

Jolitz received his BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

He and his wife resided in Los Gatos, California.

On March 2, 2022 Jolitz died from sarcoma. His death was announced on April 8, 2022 on The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) mailing list.

References

External links

• William Jolitz at the Wayback Machine (archived February 8, 2019) - personal website
• The Unknown Hackers - Salon article

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• Sleepycat Software
• Walnut Creek CDROM
• Berkeley Software Design
• iXsystems

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