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The History of Linux

By kmk113
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    Besys created by Bell Labs

  • Period: to

    Multics

    Bell Labs, General Eleteric and MIT join forces to create Multics(Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), in 1969 AT&T withdraws from Mutics
  • Period: to

    Multics is scrapped

    Bell Labs (AT&T) decide to withdraw from Multics

  • Unix is developed

    Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie rewrote the operating system, the result was Unics(UNiplexed Information and Computing Service)

  • Linus Torvalds was born

    Creator of the linux kernel

  • First edition of Unix is released

  • Second Edition of Unix released

  • B language rewritten into C

    Rewritten by Dennis Ritchie

  • Third Edition of Unix Released

  • Unix released to the public

  • Fourth edition of Unix released

  • Thompson teaches at Berkely for a year

    Bill Joy a graduate student creates em editor to replace ed

  • Fifth edition of Unix released

  • Bourne Shell is introduced

  • Sixth edition of Unix Released

  • BSD Created

  • Second edition of BSD released

  • Seventh edition of Unix released

  • SCO founded

  • Third edition of BSD released

  • BSD 4.0 released

  • SGI introduces IRIX

  • AT&T releases first version of System V

  • SCO's first packaged version of Unix Xenix System V for for Intel 8086 and 8088 processor-based PCs.

  • GNU project by Richard Stallman first announced

    http://gnu.org

  • Ultrix 1.0 releaed

  • Eighth edition of Unix released

  • GNU project manifesto released, Project starts a year and a half later

  • HP-UX 1.0 released

  • Ninth edition of Unix released.

  • Sun and AT&T lay framework for an alliance on Unix System V release 4

  • HP-UX 2.0 released

  • HP-UX 3.0 released

  • SCO Unix System V/386, the first volume commercial product licensed by AT&T to use the Unix System trademark.

  • HP-UX 7.0 released

  • Tenth edition of Unix released.

  • AIX first released by IBM

    AIX = Advanced Interactive eXecutive

  • Sun releases Solaris 2

    symmetric proccessing

  • Linux Kernel released

    Linus Torvalds created the the kernel as a hobby when he was a student at the university of Helsinki and released the kernel under his own copyright to make a free version of minix just a core system so far

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