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[03] WHAT IS THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM?
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UNIX originated in 1969 when Ken Thompson, facinated with the game
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Space Travel, decided it would be easier to write an operating
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system for the DEC PDP-7 to run his game rather than to write a
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PDP-7 cross compiler on the lab's GE-645. UNIX inhereted features
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from MULTiplexed Information and Computer System (MULTICS), a project
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that Bell Labs, General Electric and RAND were involved in. However,
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Ken never bothered to include more important features of MULTICS.
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After all, UNIX was just for a game. But, UNIX became popular in the
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labs and soon was given away to Universites. The system was never
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standardized though its name suggested UNIformity. The west coast was
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given the UNIX source code and soon Berkeley UNIX (BSD) was born.
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SYSTEM 5 and BSD have a distinct flavor which sets them apart. Many
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view SYSTEM 5 hackers as being conservative while BSD hackers are
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seen as being liberal.
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