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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 | ||
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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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+ | view SYSTEM 5 hackers as being conservative while BSD hackers are | ||
+ | seen as being liberal. | ||
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