Shane, this is for you. :)
> > 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. > > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 12:37, shane wrote: > cool history lesson, thanks! > > On Friday 15 March 2002 09:05, Lyvim Xaphir opened a hailing frequency > and transmitted: >> Where did you hear that the University of Cal at Berkeley invented >> Unix? > i knew that bell labs did it, but i was under the impression that > "bezerkely" was in on it from very early on, like 1970. funny thing > is i have heard that joke from several ppl out here.... > guess i have a new project, learn unix history. ;-) > > -- > For more than 4 generations the IT Professionals were the guardians of > quality and stability in software. Before the dark times. Before > Microsoft...... Love your sig, Shane. :) But since you are taking this to heart, let me tell you that all that stuff was from memory. As such I need to make two corrections; first I have committed heresy by mispelling Dennis Ritchie's name. I hope that the elite secret Unix Shadow Guild does not manage to penetrate my defenses before I finish this message. ;) Second, the minicomputer that Thompson and Ritchie had assess to was NOT a PDP-11, it was a PDP-7. My bad. While I am still uncrucified, let me add the following. "Space Travel" was a game that Ken Thompson had written and it was running under the Multics OS on a GE 635. Thompson and Ritchie rewrote the game so that it would run on the PDP-7. The catch was that the devel work had to be done under GECOS (a batch oriented OS), then the project was to move the finished programs to the PDP-7 for execution, using paper tape. Ken Thompson was so aggravated with the complications involved that he decided to create a file system and some utilities for the PDP-7. This primitive OS was given the name "Unix" in the following year (1970). At this time there was no portable language invented to port Unix with; Thompson had written it entirely in PDP-7 assembler. The Unix OS got attention immediately after it's initial creation. On a promise that they would add text processing capabilites to the OS, they received a PDP-11 minicomputer in exchange. Sometime in this timeframe, Ken Thompson wrote a computer language that would make it easier to port the Unix OS to other hardware. He christened it "B". Dennis Ritchie then brought his legendary talents to bear on the problem, and together with Ken they rewrote the language. They then called it "C". _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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