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First Developed
Unix was first developed in the Summer of 1969 in the Bell Labs in New Jersey by Dennis Richtie and Ken Thompson -
First Edition Of Unix Released
Two creators (Ken Thompson and Dennis Richte) of the Unix Programmers Manual included, in the manual over 60 commands. Ken Thompson developed a compiler for a new high-level language he called B, based on the earlier BCPL language developed by Martin Richard. But the main thing that was missing were pipes. So they have to redevelop it. -
Second Edition
Second edition of UNIX was released, and Dennis Richtie rewrote B and named the new language, Language C. -
The Conference
Unix was talked about at a Conference in October of 1973, and developers told the audience that UNIX had been installed in sixteen sites all within AT&T/Western Electronic -
Donald B. Gillies
Sold the first source license of UNIX to Donald at the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science -
Seventh Edition
The seventh version of Unix was released, the grandfather of all extant Unix systems. -
Potential Universal Operating System
Thousands of people used UNIX at AT&T, and as students at universities wanted to move on into companies, they still wanted to utilize this system and realized it was suitable for all computers. -
AT&T vs. Bell System
The US department of justice settled its second case against AT&T and broke the Bell System. This relieved the prevention of AT&T from turning UNIX into a product. AT&T then went to commercialize Unix System V, a move that nearly killed Unix. -
Richard Stallman
Created the GNU Project, which was a free version of the UNIX operating system. Stallman wanted people to experience again, software that could be freely used, read, modified, and redistributed. Included the C complier. -
Linux
Linus Torvald's wanted to created a freely-modifiable and very useful operating system, so he created Linux. Linus is covered by copyleft licenses, just as GNU is. Linux became the greatest operating system by the 2000s. -
Berkley
Berkley stopped further development of UNIX -
Selling UNIX
SCO sold its entire UNIX system and all of the money they made to Caldera Systems, then they changed their name to the SCO Group. The SCO group filed for bankruptcy after getting in a legal battle with Lunix. -
Sun Microsystems
The Sun Microsystems began releasing a new Solaris system code which was based on the Unix System V release four. This is now a currently ongoing open source called OpenSolaris. -
Novel
The SCO group sued Novel for copyright infringement. Novel in 2010 was ruled by the court as proving they did use the original rights in the UNIX operating system and that they own 95% of the initial revenue. -
Valve
Released SteamOS and that is a gaming operating system that is based on the Lunix distribution. -
Non-production use
A free subscription came option out in 2016, and it is the Red Hat Enterprise Lunix and offered to developers for non production use.