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Slide Set 1 - UNIX History

This document summarizes the history of the UNIX operating system from its origins in 1964 to the late 1980s. It describes how Ken Thompson and others initially developed UNIX at Bell Labs, how the source code was distributed freely to academia and the military, and how various universities and companies extended UNIX. It also discusses the "UNIX wars" of the 1980s as different groups tried to establish their own incompatible versions of UNIX, leading to divisions between SysV and other open source versions.

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Slide Set 1 - UNIX History

This document summarizes the history of the UNIX operating system from its origins in 1964 to the late 1980s. It describes how Ken Thompson and others initially developed UNIX at Bell Labs, how the source code was distributed freely to academia and the military, and how various universities and companies extended UNIX. It also discusses the "UNIX wars" of the 1980s as different groups tried to establish their own incompatible versions of UNIX, leading to divisions between SysV and other open source versions.

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CSE 457/857

Systems
Administration
UNIX Operating System

UNIX History
Ken Thompson (Bell labs) rewrote MULTICS ca 1964
Coined UNICS
Rewritten in C (was assembler) ca 1972
First published paper describing UNIX ca 1974
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.pdf

AT&T gave the source code away for free, why?

UNIX History
UCB obtained source code ca 1977
BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)
Features added

Virt mem
TCP/IP
vi
csh

Extended by academia and military (free)


ca 1985 UNIX wars

UNIX History
ca 1988, POSIX committee formed (by IEEE)
P(ortable) O(perating) S(ystem) IX
Goal: standardize UNIX definitions
Libraries, syscalls
Shell, utilities

However

UNIX History
Sun Microsystems / AT&T agreement ca 1988
married codebases (definitions)
SysV (Solaris)
In response, IBM, DEC, and HP formed OSF
Open Software Foundation
Digital UNIX, AIX, HP-UX

Bottom line: more divisiveness

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