A Brief History of Unix
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson
- Developed on DEC Minicomputers
- Rewritten in C in 1973
- Western Electric/AT&T Consent Decree of 1956
- Source Code Released for Academic Use
- Source Use Restricted in 1979 to Protect AT&T Trade Secrets
Gregory W. Smith,
gsmith@well.com
Consultant, Chemical Process Simulation