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\pdfbookmark[1]{UNIX history}{unixhist}
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\pdfbookmark[1]{UNIX history}{UNIX history}
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\begin{slide}
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\sltitle{Books on UNIX history}
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Honeywell including the Multics project, that was further developed under its
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patronage (virtual memory, multiprocessors, \dots) till 1985.
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The last Multics installation worked in the Canadian Department of National
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Defense and the system was used actively for example during the Persion gulf
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Defense and the system was used actively for example during the Persian gulf
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war. Definitive shutdown was made 31st October 2000. More information can be
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found on \url{http://www.multicians.org}.
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\item Before the work on the development environment for PDP-7 started, Thmopson
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\item UNIX V3 = \emph{UNIX version 3}, UNIX V.4 = \emph{system 5 release 4}
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etc., e.g. UNIX V3 != SVR3.
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\item UNIX System III is therefore not UNIX V3; in those days (late 70's) there
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were multiple groups in BTL that contributed to the UNIX development. Vx
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versions were developed in \emph{Computer Research Group}, other groups were
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\emph{Unix System Group} (USG), \emph{Programmer's WorkBench} (PWB).
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were multiple groups in BTL that contributed to the UNIX development.
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The ``Vx'' versions were developed in \emph{Computer Research Group}, other
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groups were \emph{Unix System Group} (USG), \emph{Programmer's WorkBench} (PWB).
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Another branch of UNIX was Columbus UNIX also in BT. The System III version is
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based on these early versions.
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\item UNIX has forked into two main branches: AT\&T and BSD, individual
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in 1981 as a result.
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\item 4.1BSD should have been originally 5BSD, however after AT\&T raised
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concerns that its customer could confuse 5BSD with System~V, BSD transitioned to
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the 4.xBSD versioning scheme. It was common that rather write its own code, the
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the 4.x BSD versioning scheme. It was common that rather write its own code, the
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Berkeley developers looked around first for what is already done. In this way
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BSD took virtual memory from Mach or NFS-compatible code developed on one
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Canadian university.
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%licensing policy. The Berkeley licensing policy was very liberal compared to
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%the one of AT\&T.
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\item The hardware manufacturers were shipping UNIX variants for their own
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computers and commercionalization made the situation worse w.r.t.
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computers and commercialization made the situation worse w.r.t.
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diversification of this system.
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\item In the 80's the first effort for standardization came into existence.
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Standard specifies how the system should behave externally (for user, programmer
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however upon closer look there were different in many important properties.
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For example System~V and BSD differed in filesystem, network architecture and
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virtual memory architecture.
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\item When in 1987 the AT\&T and Sun microsystems companies (whose then SunOS
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\item When in 1987 the AT\&T and Sun Microsystems companies (whose then SunOS
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was based on BSD) joined their effort to develop single system that would
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contain the best of each, next to enthusiastic responses it also prompted fear
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between many other unix system manufacturers that were afraid that it would mean
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between others Hewlett-Packard, IBM a Digital. This system OSF/1 that arose from
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this partnership was not very successful and it was shipped only by Digital that
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renamed it to Digital UNIX. It is interesting to note that the system was based
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on the Mach microkernel. After the aquisition of Digital by Compaq it was
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on the Mach microkernel. After the acquisition of Digital by Compaq it was
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renamed to Tru64 and supported by Hewlett-Packard, that was merged with
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Compaq in 2002. In the mean time AT\&T and Sun responded by founding UNIX
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International. This period of 80's and 90's is called \emsl{Unix Wars} -- the

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