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To say that the history of Unix is long and convoluted would be a huge understatement.
It started its life as a gaming OS dressed as a typesetting one in a forgotten alley in a research center but soon became the most important idea in modern computing history.
No other OS had such a broad impact on how we work with computers. And despite that, it's mostly a forgotten name.
It lives in its ideas and licenses, but very rarely do we think about running Unix.

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## Table of contents {#table-of-contents}

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Dune
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## Acknowledgements {#acknowledgements}

-   [Jeff](http://wovenmemories.net/), for proofreading Part III
-   [Tomáš](https://www.analognowhere.com/), for providing artwork on homepage
-   [Karl Pettersson](https://static-dust.klpn.se/), for pointing date errors about IX/386 and Xenix in Part III
-   [Dave Marquardt](https://github.com/davemq), for pointing grammar errors in Part III and informing me about existence of Piramid Technologies
-   Vladimir, for pointing a typo


## Link {#link}

If you want to link this site, you can use this button:

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## Changes {#changes}

-   _2024-09-13_: Moved to crys.site
-   _2024-06-10_: Added artwork; fixes in Part 3
-   _2024-06-09_: Date fixes (IX/386 Xenix) in Part 3
-   _2024-06-08_: First release of Part 3
-   _2024-05-30_: Extract into self-contained website
-   _2024-04-08_: Extract Unix History to dedicated section
-   _2024-03-16_: First relase of Part 2
-   _2024-03-09_: First relase of Part 1