The Origins of Unix – Now 50 Years Old

John Martellaro

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The luster has been tarnished.

ars technica has posted at terrific story by Richard Jensen on the origins of the Unix operating system back in the late 1960s.

Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the failure of an ambitious project that involved titans like Bell Labs, GE, and MIT.

A derivative of the original Unix OS, in the family tree of BSD, is the basis for macOS, iOS, and is even running in your Apple Watch.

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  1. Lee Dronick Subscriber 7 years ago

    That is an interesting read.

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  2. gGrant Subscriber 7 years ago

    I always thought Unix was reverse engineered from Alien technology. Isn’t that why (Apple ambassador) Goldblum was able to infect the alien computers with a virus in Independence Day?? Because their computers used Unix, too! Paging Dave Hamilton…

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    1. Lee Dronick Subscriber 7 years ago

      All cable installers know how to do that. ?

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