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The Multics project started in 1965 as a joint effort between AT&T Bell Labs, General Electric, and MIT to create an operating system called Multics using assembly language. In 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs redesigned Multics and introduced the new Unix operating system, written 80% in C language and 20% in assembly. Later, Unix was totally rewritten in C and renamed to UNIX in 1973. As different vendors adopted Unix, various flavors emerged such as System V from AT&T, SunOS and Solaris from Sun, AIX from IBM, and HPUX from HP.

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Linux Day - 1 Intro3

The Multics project started in 1965 as a joint effort between AT&T Bell Labs, General Electric, and MIT to create an operating system called Multics using assembly language. In 1969, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs redesigned Multics and introduced the new Unix operating system, written 80% in C language and 20% in assembly. Later, Unix was totally rewritten in C and renamed to UNIX in 1973. As different vendors adopted Unix, various flavors emerged such as System V from AT&T, SunOS and Solaris from Sun, AIX from IBM, and HPUX from HP.

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History of Unix History of Unix

MULTICS PROJECT
• It was started in 1965 on Main frame GE 645 by • In 1969, Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie at Bell
the joint effort of Labs - AT&T redesigned the Multics and introduced
– AT & T Bell Labs New OS – UNICS (Uniplexed Information &
– General Electricals computing system)
– Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • It is written in 80 percent of C language and 20
• Multics was written in Assembly Language percent assembly language.
• In 1969 Multics project was dropped. • Later on totally rewritten in C language and named
as UNIX (1973 ).

Flavors of UNIX History of Unix

Vendor OS • In 1988, AT&T shocked the UNIX


community by purchasing a percentage of
AT & T, Bell labs SYS III - SYS V
Sun Microsystems which became a threat
Sun SunOS - Solaris for other vendors.
• So, other vendors quickly formed a
IBM AIX
consortium group called OSF and former

SG IRIX formed their group named UI.


UI OSF
SCO SCO Unix (Unix International) (Open Software Foundation)
AT & T
BSD Free BSD Linux Sun
All Others
Data General
HP HPUX
Unisys

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