4.1.1. History of Unix: Unix is born
- (Unix vs. UNIX vs. Linux)
- Unix is a Third System
- Grandfather CTSS (Compatible Time Sharing System)
- Father was MULTICS
- When AT&T backed out of the MULTICS consortium in 1969, the former MULTICS developers were left with many good ideas
- they also missed the nice (but expensive!) interactive computing environment but also the community that formed around it
- Ken Thompson had an idea how to build a file system (and he needed a machine for his SPACETRAVEL game, 75$!)
- he found an old PDP-7
- the tools to host the game became the core of the later OS! -> strikingly simialar to todays Unices!
- First OS in a high level language C (1973) (invented by _Dennis Ritchie_), which evolved together with Unix
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