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categories = ["unix-history"]
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abstract = "How Unix came to be?"
shortname = "Part II: Unix"
link = "part-ii-unix"
aliases = ["/bsd/history/02_unix/"]
+primary_menu = "unix-history"
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@@ -55,9 +57,9 @@ And since those costed an arm and a leg, end users were paying for time they use
A single game of _Space Travel_ could cost Ken USD 50-75[^fn:3].
Luckily, he was able to find a discarded PDP-7 from another department[^fn:2].
-{{< img-c "space-travel.png" "https://www.uvlist.net/game-164857-Space+Travel" >}}
+{{< image class="centered" alt="Two red books containing Volume 1 and 2 of Programmers Manuals for CB Unix" source="https://www.uvlist.net/game-164857-Space+Travel" file="space-travel.png" >}}
Space Travel
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What the PDP-7 was, was a refrigerator size 18bit monstrosity[^fn:2].
It was at the time a 5-year-old and obsolete[^fn:4] leftover from an ended research into audio-psychology.
@@ -77,13 +79,13 @@ The biggest benefit however was the popularity of this machine - over the next d
You can buy a working one from _eBay_ today.
It won't be easy nor cheap, but definitely possible.
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PDP-7
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Ken Thompson and Denis Ritchie working on the legendary PDP-11.
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## Unix 1 {#unix-1}
@@ -121,9 +123,9 @@ This made it the first portable _UNIX_, as it could be recompiled to any compare
The system was presented by Ken and Denis during the _4th Symposium on Operating System Principles_ the same year,
and a year later Ken and Dennis publish the first paper on _UNIX_ - "The UNIX Time-Sharing System" in the _Communications_ journal of ACM.
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+{{< image class="centered" alt="Photo of front and back cover of an orange book with The Unix System written in the center; Above it a text states AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories Technical Jurnal" source="https://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-unix-and-clarity/" file="unix-tech-journal.jpg" >}}
Bell System Technical Journal cover.
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The word was out and _UNIX_ became known outside of _Bell Labs_.