Montag, 3. Dezember 2001

You will find more

Unix history on the web maybe than even history of the Internet itself.

Dennis Ritchie, Ken ThompsonThat's the guys who dunnit at their ttys.
The official story is here The best stuff is on co-inventor Dennis Ritchies homepage. He's even got 1972 C-Compilers. Unix and C where extremely competent "hacks", not planned, not ordered, used internally for a long while. Bell Labs and GE (Americas Siemens) joined MIT in 1965 on a TS system Multics that should run on the GE645 mainframe. When the project inclusive HW was cancelled and the boys where back home, they did a modest hack: Unix instead of Multics. When they wanted to port they developed BCPL (of Xerox Alto and Amiga fame) into C. This is all to flapsy. The other guys that should be mentioned are Doug McIlroy, J. F. Ossanna and Brian Kernighan. He didn't like Pascal, here is why. All in all it was more rebel and evolution with lots of lessons learned in a big failed skunkworks project and modest enough to go for a long way. That's my conclusion. At the end of the 70ies this was one portable capable OS for "small" computers. I think Paul Allen saw the beauty in it and then, it was available for licensing. I guess that Western Electric, half owner of Bell Labs was still the licence owner then.

I'll just cite one sentence from the <a href=kerneltrap.org>article that Hannes read and mentioned, worth citing and coming from L.Torvalds: Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. It's a bit stupid on my side to cite this, but Mr. Torvalds arguments in that roundup where just to good and close to what i think many times. Really did me good

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