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  2. History of Linux - Wikipedia

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    After AT&T had dropped out of the Multics project, the Unix operating system was conceived and implemented by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (both of AT&T Bell Laboratories) in 1969 and first released in 1970. Later they rewrote it in a new programming language, C, to make it portable.

  3. UNIX System V - Wikipedia

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    Unix history tree AT&T System V license plate UNIX System V Release 1 on SIMH (PDP-11). System V was the successor to 1982's UNIX System III.While AT&T developed and sold hardware that ran System V, most customers ran a version from a reseller, based on AT&T's reference implementation.

  4. Linux - Wikipedia

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    A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system, deriving much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a monolithic kernel, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, access to the peripherals, and file systems.

  5. Unix - Wikipedia

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    Unix (/ ˈ j uː n ɪ k s / ⓘ, YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 [1] at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

  6. KornShell - Wikipedia

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    github.com /ksh93 /ksh /wiki. KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. [1][2] The initial development was based on Bourne shell source code. [7] Other early contributors were Bell Labs developers Mike Veach and Pat Sullivan, who wrote the Emacs ...

  7. History of Unix - Wikipedia

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    The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing an experimental time-sharing operating system called Multics for the GE-645 mainframe. [1] Multics introduced many innovations, but also had many problems.

  8. List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 September 2024. List of software distributions using the Linux kernel This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this ...

  9. Unix wars - Wikipedia

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    Although AT&T's Bell Labs created Unix, by the 1980s, Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group was the leading non-commercial Unix developer. [1] In the mid-1980s, the three common versions of Unix were AT&T's System III , the basis of Microsoft 's Xenix and the IBM-endorsed PC/IX , among others; AT&T's System V , which it sought to establish ...