40 years of Unix
1969, the summer of love for most, was the summer of not having enough computer resources for AT&T Bell Lab employees Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. After the failure of time-sharing system Multics, the two gentlemen needed a computer and an operating system to run Space Travel, an early computer game. Since there was a now-famous "little-used DEC PDP-7" mini-computer at Bell Labs, they took it over and start programming the game into the computer using paper tape. Of course, to run the game, they also needed a file system, some way of handling computer processes. They used the lessons of Multics to create an operating system that, in time, became Unix.
Today, we often see Unix as an operating system on the way out. So why do I think that Unix is actually alive and well if its best known operating systems are either on the way out or slowly losing ground?
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