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- | UNIX originated in 1969 when Ken Thompson, facinated with the game | + | 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. | + | |
- | 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. | + | |
- | standardized though its name suggested UNIformity. | + | |
- | given the UNIX source code and soon Berkeley UNIX (BSD) was born. | + | |
- | SYSTEM 5 and BSD have a distinct flavor which sets them apart. | + | 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. | + | |
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