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 +[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 
 +     system for the DEC PDP-7 to run his game rather than to write a
 +     PDP-7 cross compiler on the lab's GE-645.  UNIX inhereted features
 +     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.  The system was never
 +     standardized though its name suggested UNIformity.  The west coast was
 +     given the UNIX source code and soon Berkeley UNIX (BSD) was born.
  
 +     SYSTEM 5 and BSD have a distinct flavor which sets them apart.  Many
 +     view SYSTEM 5 hackers as being conservative while BSD hackers are
 +     seen as being liberal.
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