To say that the history of Unix is long and convoluted would be a huge understatement. It started its life as a gaming OS dressed as a typesetting one in a forgotten alley in a research center but soon became the most important idea in modern computing history. No other OS had such a broad impact on how we work with computers. And despite that, it’s mostly a forgotten name. It lives in its ideas and licenses, but very rarely do we think about running Unix.
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Acknowledgements
- Jeff, for proofreading Part III
- Tomáš, for providing artwork on homepage
- Karl Pettersson, for pointing date errors about IX/386 and Xenix in Part III
- Dave Marquardt, for pointing grammar errors in Part III and informing me about existence of Piramid Technologies
- Vladimir, for pointing a typo
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Changes
- 2024-09-13: Moved to crys.site
- 2024-06-10: Added artwork; fixes in Part 3
- 2024-06-09: Date fixes (IX/386 Xenix) in Part 3
- 2024-06-08: First release of Part 3
- 2024-05-30: Extract into self-contained website
- 2024-04-08: Extract Unix History to dedicated section
- 2024-03-16: First relase of Part 2
- 2024-03-09: First relase of Part 1