Unix History
Diagram
You can download a little diagram of Unix history in PostScript A4 [ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/unix_a4.ps
] or in PDF A4 [ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/unix_a4.pdf ]. If you prefer,
you can use the PostScript Letter [ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/unix_letter.ps
] format or the PDF [ Letter http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/unix_letter.pdf
] format. Below, you can see the preview :
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If your computer doesn't use Display PostScript, you can download a
free PostScript viewer here [ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ ].
Some Home Pages :
Some useful links :
- UNIX Past [ http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
] from The Open Group.
- History of UNIX [ http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/TUHS/Mirror/Hauben/unix.html
] by Ronda Hauben.
- UNIX History Graphing Project [ http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Unix_History/index.html
] by Warren Toomey.
- FreeBSD Release Information [ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html
] from FreeBSD.
- BSD History Chart [ http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/ftp/unix-stammbaum ] from
FreeBSD.
- Server OS Technical Comparison [ http://www.honeycomb.net/os/ ] from Milo.
- Sun History [ http://www.sun.com/corporateoverview/who/history.html ] from
SUN.
- HP History [ http://www.software.hp.com/HPUX-RDMP/history/slide1.htm ] from
HP.
- Unix and Multics [ http://www.city.ac.uk/~sh392/multics/unix.html ] by Tom
Van Vleck.
- Unix Start [ http://virtual.park.uga.edu/hc/unixhistory.html ] from the
University of Georgia.
- Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers [ http://web.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist.htm
] by Ken Polsson.
- Linux Kernel [ http://www.kernel.org/ ] and Linux Kernel Notes [ http://www.kernelnotes.org/
].
- Histoire de l'informatique : Unix [ http://histoire.info.free.fr/unix.html
] (in french) by Serge Rossi.
My other links :
- Computer Languages History [ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/lang/index.html
].
- Unix Hierarchy [ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/guru.html ] (an old
paper).
- NeXT History [ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/NeXTSTEP/index.html ] (in
french).
- Windows History [ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/windows/index.html ].
- Download [ http://levenez.free.fr/ ] a "tar.gz" image of this site
* You may be wondering "Why does Steve
Jobs appear in this unix history?". Simply because he has made the best unix
computer ever : a NeXTcube powered with NeXTSTEP operating system.
Last update : july 9, 2000
Copyright 2000 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/
