How Old Is Unix?
Contents Evolution of Unix and Unix-Like Systems Developer Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas Mcilroy, and Joe Ossanna at Bell Labs Initial...
| Evolution of Unix and Unix-like systems | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna at Bell Labs |
| Initial release | Development started in 1969 First manual published internally in November 1971 Announced outside Bell Labs in October 1973 |
| Available in | English |
When was Unix invented?
In 1969 a team led by computer scientists Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created the first version of UNIX on a PDP-7 minicomputer, which was chosen mainly because of Thompson’s familiarity with the system from his hobby work on it.
Is Unix 2020 still used?
Yet despite the fact that the alleged decline of UNIX keeps coming up, it’s still breathing. It’s still widely used in enterprise data centers. It’s still running huge, complex, key applications for companies that absolutely, positively need those apps to run.
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