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- | [04] WHAT ARE YOUR POLICIES? | + | ==== [03] WHAT IS THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM? ==== |
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- | + | UNIX originated in 1969 when Ken Thompson, facinated with the game | |
- | **limitations and policy** | + | Space Travel, decided it would be easier to write an operating |
- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | + | system for the DEC PDP-7 to run his game rather than to write a |
- | + | PDP-7 cross compiler on the lab' | |
- | The SDF Public Access UNIX System, a 501(c)7 non-profit corporation, | + | from MULTiplexed Information |
- | + | that Bell Labs, General Electric and RAND were involved | |
- | The SDF Public Access | + | Ken never bothered |
- | failure where critical files would be restored from daily tape backups. | + | After all, UNIX was just for a game. |
- | + | labs and soon was given away to Universites. | |
- | Members of the SDF Public Access | + | standardized though its name suggested UNIformity. The west coast was |
- | + | given the UNIX source code and soon Berkeley UNIX (BSD) was born. | |
- | Lifetime ARPA membership is based on the lifetime of SDF, not of the user and is non-transferable. | + | |
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- | Any illegal activities which includes, but certainly isn't limited to spamming, portflooding, | + | |
- | this sort of abuse. If you want to use SDF, you really have to care about this system | + | |
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- | [[basics|back]] | + | |
+ | SYSTEM 5 and BSD have a distinct flavor which sets them apart. | ||
+ | view SYSTEM 5 hackers as being conservative while BSD hackers are | ||
+ | seen as being liberal. |