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A Short History <strong>of</strong> <strong>UNIX</strong> <strong>and</strong> C<br />

1969 Ken Thompson wrote the first <strong>UNIX</strong> (in assembler) on a PDP7 at AT&T Bell<br />

Labs, allegedly to play Space Travel<br />

1970 Brian Kernighan coins the name <strong>UNIX</strong>. The <strong>UNIX</strong> project gets a PDP11 <strong>and</strong><br />

a task: Writing a text processing system<br />

1971-72 Creation <strong>of</strong> C (Dennis Ritchie), <strong>UNIX</strong> rewritten in C<br />

1972 Pipes arrive, <strong>UNIX</strong> installed on 10 (!) systems<br />

1975 AT&T <strong>UNIX</strong> “Version 6” distributed with sources under academic licenses<br />

1976 Ken Thompson in Berkely, leading to BSD <strong>UNIX</strong><br />

1977 1BSD release<br />

1978 <strong>UNIX</strong> “Version 7”, leading to System V (AT&T)<br />

Stephan Schulz 12

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