Jan 9, 2023
UNIX
is a big deal. It's one of the most influential programs in
history. Most operating systems that we use today can trace their
lineage back to UNIX. The only notable exception at this point is
Windows. But all these new-fangled operating systems aren't blood
relatives of UNIX, they are all derivatives. Second cousins, if you
will. So how did we get from UNIX into a diverse field of UNIX-like
things? It all starts with a little project at UC
Berkeley.
Selected Sources:
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2022/06/102743073-05-01-acc.pdf
- Oral History of Bill
Joy
https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salus_201910/page/n157/mode/2up?view=theater
- A Quarter Century of
UNIX
