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Event History / History of Unix..
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A table (c) The Open Group showing the history of evolution of Unix.
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| 1969 | The Beginning | The history of UNIX starts back in 1969, when Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others started working on the "little-used PDP-7 in a corner" at Bell Labs and what was to become UNIX. |  view
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| 1971 | First Edition | It had a assembler for a PDP-11/20, file system, fork(), roff and ed. It was used for text processing of patent documents. | view
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| 1973 | Fourth Edition | It was rewritten in C. This made it portable and changed the history of OS's. | view
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| 1975 | Sixth Edition | UNIX leaves home. Also widely known as Version 6, this is the first to be widely available out side of Bell Labs. The first BSD version (1.x) was derived from V6. | view
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| 1979 | Seventh Edition | It was a "improvement over all preceding and following Unices" [Bourne]. It had C, UUCP and the Bourne shell. It was ported to the VAX and the kernel was more than 40 Kilobytes (K). | view
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| 1980 | Xenix | Microsoft introduces Xenix. 32V and 4BSD introduced. | view
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| 1982 | System III | AT&T's UNIX System Group (USG) release System III, the first public release outside Bell Laboratories. SunOS 1.0 ships. HP-UX introduced. Ultrix-11 Introduced. | view
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| 1983 | System V |
Computer Research Group (CRG), UNIX System Group (USG) and a third group merge to become UNIX System Development Lab. AT&T announces UNIX System V, the first supported release. Installed base 4...
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| 1984 | 4.2BSD | University of California at Berkeley releases 4.2BSD, includes TCP/IP, new signals and much more. X/Open formed. | view
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| 1984 | SVR2 | System V Release 2 introduced. At this time there are 100,000 UNIX installations around the world. | view
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