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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 | ||
+ | Space Travel, decided it would be easier to write an operating | ||
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+ | PDP-7 cross compiler on the lab's GE-645. | ||
+ | from MULTiplexed Information and Computer System (MULTICS), a project | ||
+ | that Bell Labs, General Electric and RAND were involved in. However, | ||
+ | Ken never bothered to include more important features of MULTICS. | ||
+ | After all, UNIX was just for a game. But, UNIX became popular in the | ||
+ | labs and soon was given away to Universites. | ||
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+ | given the UNIX source code and soon Berkeley UNIX (BSD) was born. | ||
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- | **limitations | + | view SYSTEM 5 hackers as being conservative while BSD hackers |
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- | The SDF Public Access UNIX System, | + | |
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- | The SDF Public Access UNIX System makes no guarantees in the reliability or preservation of account accessibility, | + | |
- | failure where critical files would be restored from daily tape backups. | + | |
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- | Members of the SDF Public Access UNIX System | + | |
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- | 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 and the people here. If you don't want to care, then you really shouldn' | + | |
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