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In 19691970, Kenneth Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others at AT&T Bell Labs began developing a small operating system on a littleused PDP7. The operating system was soon christened Unix, a pun on an earlier operating system project called MULTICS. In ...
http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/history.html
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- BSD Daemon
Many folks have asked about the BSD daemons name. Contrary to a myth first started by some advertising droid at Walnut Creek, the daemons name is NOT Chuck. He is very proud of the fact that he does not have a name, he is just the BSD daemon. ...
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/
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- The CSRG Archive
In an article on August 14, 2006, Charles Babcock of InformationWeek concludes The single Greatest Piece of Software Ever, with the broadest impact on the world, was BSD 4.3. Other Unixes were bigger commercial successes. But as the cumulative accomp ...
http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/
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- Synopsis of Unix History
Indiana Universitys UITS Support Center has been answering computing questions via email, telephone, and walkin since the early 1980s. Even in those early days, constant change and repetitive answers were the modus operandi. These two conditions enco ...
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/acve.html?cust=7748
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- History of Unix Nick Moffitt
The other night I arrived early at the San Francisco Brewing Company in anticipation of the San Francisco Linuxstammtisch. Passing the time by drinking IPAs and chatting with the bartender, I ran across two greybeards from Oregon who were in the city ...
http://crackmonkey.org/unix.html
| | - The Unix History
This is a simplified diagram of unix history. There are numerous derivative systems not listed in this chart, maybe 10 times more In the recent past, many electronic companies had their own unix releases. ...
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
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- The Bell Labs
The Computing Science Technical Reports listed here are selected not so much for pecial merit, but because they happened to be available in machine readable format.Some of the reports below are superseded by published papers or books; some of those n ...
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
| | - One Man Unix
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the good old days of hobby computing before the IBM PC and its clones took over the world Steve Hosgood built a Unix clone at home. He was used to V7 Unix on the PDP11 at university and wasnt keen to step backwards 1 ...
http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=335
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- FreeBSD Project
The FreeBSD Project had its genesis in the early part of 1993, partially as an outgrowth of the “Unofficial 386BSD Patchkit” by the patchkits last 3 coordinators: Nate Williams, Rod Grimes and myself. ...
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html
| | - History and Timeline
Since it began to escape from AT&Ts Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s, the success of the UNIX operating system has led to many different versions: recipients of the at that time free UNIX system code all began developing their own different versi ...
http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
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