Monday, March 30, 2015

HISTORY OF UNIX

  •   UNIX developed in 1970’s at AT&T Bell laboratories.

  • Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson Introduced a UNIX operating system at AT & T bell labs.

  • The First version of UNIX is written in 80% of “C” language and 20% of Assembly language, in 1973, UNIX totally re-written in “C” language.

  • Bell laboratories continued to develop on UNIX operating system, and they released several versions such as System-3 & System-4.

  • Bell Labs distributed UNIX Source-code to an “Educational Institutions” The University of California of Berkeley”.

  • U.C Berkeley added many new features into the UNIX operating system and they released first version of UNIX called BSD Unix (we known as 4.3 and 4.4 BSD.)

  • Like that UNIX raised many Flavors:

UNIX Flavors:

BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution

SUN - Stand ford University

AIX - Advanced IBM UNIX





 HPUX - Hewlett Packard

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