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The Beginning of an era
Ken Thompson and Dennis Richtce are working at the Bell Labs working on Multics operating system -
Spacewar!
Ken and Dennis had created their game for an operating system -
Multics creation
Multics was created -
Bell Labs pulled the plug
Bell labs had pulled the plug on the Muiltics operating system -
Creation of Unix
The programmers who worked on Multics stayed back at the labs and started working on the creation of unix -
C
Unix was rewritten into the C programming language -
Unix Schooling
Bell labs and the University of Berkeley teamed up to expand Unix -
Ken becomes a Teacher
Ken teaches Unix at the University of Berkeley -
First BSD created
Berkeley Software Distribution was created -
Wide scale spread
Uinx had spread to schools and businesses -
Huge blow for Unix
Unix started to get looked over when Microsoft and IBM made a huge deal together over their IBM PC -
GNU
Free software distributed through the country -
Adaptations
Different adaptions of operating systems based off Unix start showing up as beta tests -
Fall of Unix
Linux was released with internet which Unix didnt have -
Unix adaptation
Unix was adapted into many different operating systems, nothing after this year had just Unix by itslef
