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Besys created by Bell Labs
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Multics
Bell Labs, General Eleteric and MIT join forces to create Multics(Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), in 1969 AT&T withdraws from Mutics -
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Multics is scrapped
Bell Labs (AT&T) decide to withdraw from Multics -
Unix is developed
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie rewrote the operating system, the result was Unics(UNiplexed Information and Computing Service) -
Linus Torvalds was born
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First edition of Unix is released
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Second Edition of Unix released
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B language rewritten into C
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Third Edition of Unix Released
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Unix released to the public
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Fourth edition of Unix released
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Thompson teaches at Berkely for a year
Bill Joy a graduate student creates em editor to replace ed -
Fifth edition of Unix released
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Bourne Shell is introduced
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Sixth edition of Unix Released
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BSD Created
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Second edition of BSD released
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Seventh edition of Unix released
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SCO founded
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Third edition of BSD released
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BSD 4.0 released
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SGI introduces IRIX
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AT&T releases first version of System V
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SCO's first packaged version of Unix Xenix System V for for Intel 8086 and 8088 processor-based PCs.
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GNU project by Richard Stallman first announced
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Ultrix 1.0 releaed
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Eighth edition of Unix released
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GNU project manifesto released, Project starts a year and a half later
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HP-UX 1.0 released
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Ninth edition of Unix released.
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Sun and AT&T lay framework for an alliance on Unix System V release 4
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HP-UX 2.0 released
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HP-UX 3.0 released
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SCO Unix System V/386, the first volume commercial product licensed by AT&T to use the Unix System trademark.
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HP-UX 7.0 released
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Tenth edition of Unix released.
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AIX first released by IBM
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Sun releases Solaris 2
symmetric proccessing -
Linux Kernel released
Linus Torvalds created the the kernel as a hobby when he was a student at the university of Helsinki and released the kernel under his own copyright to make a free version of minix just a core system so far