UNIX: A History and a Memoir

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The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original group of Unix developers, the creator of several fundamental Unix programs, and the co-author of classic books like "The C Programming Language" and "The Unix Programming Environment." Cover Contents Preface 1. Bell Labs ____1.1 Physical sciences at Bell Labs ____1.2 Communications and computer science ____1.3 BWK at BTL ____1.4 Office space ____1.5 137 → 127 → 1127 → 11276 2. Proto-Unix (1969) ____2.1 A bit of technical background ____2.2 CTSS and Multics ____2.3 The origin of Unix ____2.4 What’s in a name? ____2.5 Biography: Ken Thompson 3. First Edition (1971) ____3.1 Unix for patent applications ____3.2 The Unix room ____3.3 The Unix Programmer's Manual ____3.4 A few words about memory ____3.5 Biography: Dennis Ritchie 4. Sixth Edition (1975) ____4.1 File system ____4.2 System calls ____4.3 Shell ____4.4 Pipes ____4.5 Grep ____4.6 Regular Expressions ____4.7 The C programming language ____4.8 Software Tools and Ratfor ____4.9 Biography: Doug McIlroy 5. Seventh Edition (1976-1979) ____5.1 Bourne shell ____5.2 Yacc, Lex, Make ________Yacc ________Make ____5.3 Document preparation ________Early formatters ________Troff and typesetters ________Eqn and other preprocessors ________Device-independent Troff ________Book publication ____5.4 Sed and Awk ________Sed ________Awk ____5.5 Other languages ________Scientific computing ________UUCP ________Security ________Hardware 6. Beyond Research ____6.1 Programmer's Workbench ____6.2 University licenses ____6.3 User groups and Usenix ____6.4 John Lions' Commentary ____6.5 Portability 7. Commercialization ____7.1 Divestiture ____7.2 USL and SVR4 ____7.3 UNIX™ ____7.4 Public relations 8. Descendants ____8.1 Berkeley Software Distribution ____8.2 Unix wars ____8.3 Minix and Linux ____8.4 Plan 9 ____8.5 Diaspora 9. Legacy ____9.1 Technical ____9.2 Organization ____9.3 Recognition ____9.4 Could history repeat? Sources