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Unix, (UNIX)

a multitasking, multi-user operating system developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna [1].

Philosophy

The Unix philosophy was summarized by Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. This paradigm was archetype of both primary Protocols in computer chess, to communicate with a GUI or game playing controllers and servers, the Chess Engine Communication Protocol, and UCI.

Unix-Systems

[ Unix genealogy tree [3]

• AIX
• Android
• Berkeley Software Distribution

FreeBSD OpenBSD

• Darwin
• GNU
• Linux
• Mac OS
• MINIX
• Solaris
• SunOS
• Tru64 UNIX

Digital UNIX

• UNIX System V
• Xenix

Selected Publications

[4]

• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (1971). UNIX Programmer's Manual. Bell Telephone Laboratories, 5th Edition 1974 as pdf, 7th Edition 1979
• Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann (eds.) (1994). The Unix-Haters Handbook. ISBN 1-56884-203-1.
• Dennis Ritchie (2001). Ken, Unix, and Games, ICGA Journal, Vol. 24. No. 2
• Eric S. Raymond (2003). The Art of Unix Programming. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-142901-7, Addison-Wesley
• Hiroyuki Iida (2011). The 2011 Japan Prize Awarded to Unix Pioneers. ICGA Journal Vol. 34, No. 1 [5]

Forum Posts

• Compiling for Unix by Pradu Kannan, Winboard Forum, May 08, 2007 » Buzz
• Escape from the Unix Cosmic Background Radiation by Steven Edwards, CCC, September 23, 2014

External Links

• Unix from Wikipedia
• Unix architecture from Wikipedia
• Unix-like from Wikipedia
• Unix philosophy from Wikipedia
• Single UNIX Specification from Wikipedia
• Unix wars from Wikipedia
• POSIX from Wikipedia
• UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use - AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories, YouTube Video

References

1. ↑ Unix from Wikipedia
2. ↑ The X-Windows Disaster - How to make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC, Chapter 7 of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook. The X-Windows Disaster chapter was written by Don Hopkins
3. ↑ Unix wars from Wikipedia
4. ↑ Early UNIX Documents - Ancient UNIX - Blog - This Old Micro
5. ↑ Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie win Japan 'Nobel' Prize, ChessBase News, January 26, 2011

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