Date: Thu, 3 Sep 98 11:38 +0100 From: Justin Murdock <justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin, sbin, another bin... Message-ID: <199809031038.LAA29028@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Andriss' mail of Wed, 2 Sep 98 20:21 %2B0500
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> >Doug (which is not an acronym BTW, so unix or Unix is correct, UNIX is > >not) > Hey Doug, > Remember that bell labs license plate pic? the uh.. greenish one? > Well, sure as I don't know what, it said UNIX on it ;-) That'll have been small-caps ... ;) > The question at hand: > Who was the original `inventor' and what flavour was it? > Also, when did it split onto System V, BSD and all the > other numerous unixes? "... The earliest (circa 1969-70) ... Perhaps the most important achievement of UNIX is to demonstrate that a powerful operating system for interactive use need not be expensive either in equipment or in human effort: it can run on hardware costing as little as $40,000, and less than two man-years were sepent on the main system software. ... a minimal system capable of running [C, Fortran 77, Snobol, APL, phototypesetting and equation setting programs, assemler, linking loader and symbolic debugger,...] can require as little as 96K bytes of core altogether." The UNIX Time-Sharing System, D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, Copyright 1974, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. > I hope this belongs to this list :-) > (sorry if not) Me too... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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