Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 00:32:15 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is BSD Message-ID: <15088.60767.89794.219758@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010503002403.A798@cec.wustl.edu> References: <124992994@toto.iv> <15088.59902.80071.263738@guru.mired.org> <20010503002403.A798@cec.wustl.edu>
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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:17:50AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types: > > > Back in the days when I was, oh, about -13 years old (yes, that's a > > > minus sign), a man named Dennis Ritchie and some of his cohorts at Bell > > > Labs decided to build an operating system to run on their PDP-11 > > Um - that was a PDP-7, and it was never known as "Unics", but was Unix > > from the first, though that was indeed a pun on Multics. They didn't > > write a PDP-11 version of Unix until after the PDP-11 was available. > I wasn't sure about either of those... but the UNIX timeline, available > at the URL I posted before, shows UNIX coming from UNICS. This was > September 1969. The first UNIX release is listed as November 3, 1971. > > The site has a fair amount of information, including links to the home > pages of Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and others. Here > is the URL again: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/. I urge you all > to check it out. That also includes the AT&T paper on the history of Unix, which I used to verify the original machine type. It happened to mentioned the origin of the name. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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