On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:11, shane wrote: > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:26, Myers, Dennis R NWO opened a hailing > frequency and transmitted: > > > LoL... ever hear of Pigdog? Being a Sanfranciscan and all. > > fraid not, but i have only been here 2 years..... :-P > > i have learned there is a reason berkely invented both UNIX and LSD > though..... :-D > > -- > "He who laughs, lasts."
Where did you hear that the University of Cal at Berkeley invented Unix? Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie developed the first version of Unix at Bell labs in Murray Hill, NJ.... circa 1969. (same year that men walked on the moon, btw) They developed the OS so they could run a game on a less expensive PDP-11 minicomputer (computer time was expensive in those days.) They made the OS portable by using a variant of the "B" programming language (authored by Ken Thompson) called "C" (based on B, but basically authored by Dennis Richie). The reason they wanted to port the OS was so they could run a game called "Space Travel." In 1975, Unix was made available to educational institutions at minimal cost by Bell Labs. Among those that got it was the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of Cal at Berkeley. The distro forked into BSD. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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