The History of Linux

Besys created by Bell Labs

Period: Jan 1, 1957 to Jan 1, 1965

Multics

Period: Jan 1, 1965 to Jan 1, 1969

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

Multics is scrapped

Period: Apr 1, 1969 to Apr 5, 1969

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

Unix is developed

Apr 20, 1969

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

Linus Torvalds was born

Dec 28, 1969

Creator of the linux kernel

First edition of Unix is released

Nov 3, 1971

Second Edition of Unix released

Dec 2, 1972

B language rewritten into C

Dec 6, 1972

Rewritten by Dennis Ritchie

Third Edition of Unix Released

Feb 1, 1973

Unix released to the public

Oct 1, 1973

Fourth edition of Unix released

Nov 1, 1973

Thompson teaches at Berkely for a year

Jan 1, 1974

Bill Joy a graduate student creates em editor to replace ed

Fifth edition of Unix released

Jun 1, 1974

Bourne Shell is introduced

Jan 1, 1975

Sixth edition of Unix Released

May 1, 1975

BSD Created

Nov 12, 1977

Second edition of BSD released

Jul 1, 1978

Seventh edition of Unix released

Jan 1, 1979

SCO founded

Jan 9, 1979

Third edition of BSD released

Nov 12, 1979

BSD 4.0 released

Oct 1, 1980

SGI introduces IRIX

Jan 1, 1982

AT&T releases first version of System V

Jan 1, 1983

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

Feb 1, 1983

GNU project by Richard Stallman first announced

Sep 27, 1983

http://gnu.org

Ultrix 1.0 releaed

Jan 1, 1984

Eighth edition of Unix released

Feb 1, 1985

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

Mar 1, 1985

HP-UX 1.0 released

Jan 1, 1986

Ninth edition of Unix released.

Sep 1, 1986

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

Jan 1, 1987

HP-UX 2.0 released

Feb 9, 1988

HP-UX 3.0 released

Sep 9, 1988

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

Jan 1, 1989

HP-UX 7.0 released

Feb 1, 1989

Tenth edition of Unix released.

Oct 1, 1989

AIX first released by IBM

Feb 1, 1990

AIX = Advanced Interactive eXecutive

Sun releases Solaris 2

Jan 1, 1991

symmetric proccessing

Linux Kernel released

Aug 25, 1991

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