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diff --git a/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md b/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md index 51ad920..0807909 100644 --- a/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md +++ b/content/unix-history/03_unix_wars.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ categories = ["unix-history"] draft = false weight = 2004 image_dir = "unix-history" -image_max_width = 700 +image_max_width = 480 abstract = "How Unix came to be?" shortname = "Part III: Unix Wars" primary_menu = "unix-history" @@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ It's a gold mine and guiding light allowing me to write the following chapter. The first forks (separately developed versions of _Unix_) came from Bell[^fn:1]. -<https://youtu.be/XuzeagzQwRs?si=VJjyR1A_ofZAoguI&t=1610> - AT&T was, as we remember, a telephone company. Lots of wires coming into centralized buildings, called _switches_. The first known fork of _Unix_ was intended to automate switching of connections, therefore the very long name - _New Jersey Bell Switch Control Center System (/NJ Bell SCCS). @@ -87,8 +85,6 @@ _AUSAM_, the _Australian Unix Share Accounting Method_ was the first community m The work conducted at Universities of Sydney and New South Wales focused on allowing the system to run with huge number of users[^fn:9]. The changes returned to _Unix V7_, but _AUSAM_ was never upgraded to a full 7th ed[^fn:1] -<https://youtu.be/XuzeagzQwRs?si=ZXhDIsNgliZpfml3> - In 1975, Ken Thompson took a sabbatical and took a teaching job at Berkeley University, where he helped install Version 6 of _Unix_. The OS received quite the attention of students and faculty, resulting in the first version of _BSD Unix_ - _1BSD_. The lineage of BSD is extensive (not to mention their descendants are what I use) and will be a subject of the next part of our story. |