Unix operating system
Unix
- Date
- 1969 · confidence high
- Place
- Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs)
- People
- 👤 Dennis Ritchie1941–2011👤 Ken Thompson1943–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Portable, multi-user, multitasking operating system, with small tools combined through pipes and a hierarchical file system. Rewritten in C in 1973, it became the model for almost every operating system today.
What it led to
- The internet: TCP/IP was first implemented in BSD Unix
- Linux, Android, macOS and iOS, direct or conceptual descendants
- The culture of open software and command-line tools
Built on
- Time-sharing operating system (CTSS, Multics)1961
- Minicomputer (DEC PDP-8)1965
- PDP-7 minicomputer
- time-sharing system