Unix turns 40
Postano: 05 lip 2009, 09:59
Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS
After four decades, the future of the operating system is clouded, but its legacy will endure.
After four decades, the future of the operating system is clouded, but its legacy will endure.
Više: http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... Id=9133570Computerworld - Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer at AT&T subsidiary Bell Laboratories, saw the month-long departure of his wife and young son as an opportunity to put his ideas for a new operating system into practice. He wrote the first version of Unix in assembly language for a wimpy Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-7 minicomputer, spending one week each on the operating system, a shell, an editor and an assembler.