History of Unix

By zrace1
  • The Beginning of an era

    The Beginning of an era

    Ken Thompson and Dennis Richtce are working at the Bell Labs working on Multics operating system
  • Spacewar!

    Spacewar!

    Ken and Dennis had created their game for an operating system
  • Multics creation

    Multics creation

    Multics was created
  • Bell Labs pulled the plug

    Bell Labs pulled the plug

    Bell labs had pulled the plug on the Muiltics operating system
  • Creation of Unix

    Creation of Unix

    The programmers who worked on Multics stayed back at the labs and started working on the creation of unix
  • C

    C

    Unix was rewritten into the C programming language
  • Unix Schooling

    Unix Schooling

    Bell labs and the University of Berkeley teamed up to expand Unix
  • Ken becomes a Teacher

    Ken becomes a Teacher

    Ken teaches Unix at the University of Berkeley
  • First BSD created

    First BSD created

    Berkeley Software Distribution was created
  • Wide scale spread

    Wide scale spread

    Uinx had spread to schools and businesses
  • Huge blow for Unix

    Huge blow for Unix

    Unix started to get looked over when Microsoft and IBM made a huge deal together over their IBM PC
  • GNU

    GNU

    Free software distributed through the country
  • Adaptations

    Adaptations

    Different adaptions of operating systems based off Unix start showing up as beta tests
  • Fall of Unix

    Fall of Unix

    Linux was released with internet which Unix didnt have
  • Unix adaptation

    Unix adaptation

    Unix was adapted into many different operating systems, nothing after this year had just Unix by itslef