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UNIX hits the Big Three-Oh

Posted by chrisd on from the happy-birthday-there-big-fella dept.

sparcv9 writes: "If you scope the timeline over at Éric Lévénez's site, you'll see that today, November 3rd, is the 30th birthday of the UNIX Time-Sharing System V1. The Open Group's UNIX history describes the features of Version 1 as having an "assembler for a PDP-11/20, file system, fork(), roff and ed. It was used for text processing of patent documents." We've come a long way in just three decades."

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  1. Gotta love the irony of it by no+parity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone of us hates patents, yet loves a system that was born out of the needs of processing patent applications.

  2. No!!! by reynaert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unix... used... for processing patents?!? No! That can't be! Patents are evil! Unix is good! Unix can't be evil! ...Can it?

    I have to hurry...
    rm -rf /* ....
    OK I'm saved now...

    But what OS should I use now? MacOS X is Unix... BeOS is kind of Unix... What else's left? Windows XP... No, it can't be... There has to be something else... Oh God, don't do this to me!!!

    1. Re:No!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      BeOS is kind of Unix

      Take that back!

      You have insulted the honor of BeOS! Shall we say pistols at dawn? My seconds shall call on your seconds.

  3. well, how about that by Raleel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I turned 30 today as well...and I'm a unix admin...go figure

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  4. Pish-posh... operating system whippersnapper by Colin+Bayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back in my day, we didn't even have fork(). We only had spoon().

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    1. Re:Pish-posh... operating system whippersnapper by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

      You had spoon()? We only had stick(), and we were glad to have it! And we didn't have these fancy microcomputers neither. No, we had to walk 15 blocks to get from one end to the other, uphill, both ways! And we were glad to do it too!

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      General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
    2. Re:Pish-posh... operating system whippersnapper by yesthatguy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just wait for the next-generation combination of the two... spork()! Then we'll really be livin' large.

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      Yes! That guy!
  5. forking by Kiro · · Score: 5, Funny

    fork ()

    GCC error: The Oracle says, there is no fork

    .

  6. Re:Unix Programming Manuel by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    famous ones like boot, chmod, mv, cp, and ls

    Maybe for its 30th birthday present, someone could buy Unix some vowels.

  7. There goes my installation by Engelbot · · Score: 4, Funny
    "We have a saying in the movement that you can't trust anybody over 30."

    --Jack Weinberg, 1964
    Well, great. Now I'll have to install a new OS . . .
    1. Re:There goes my installation by Brontosaurus+Jim · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nope... keep it another year! UNIX is not over 30, so it's safe.

      But in a year... well... then we'll talk.

  8. Re:How far have we come by kfg · · Score: 4, Funny

    "And lastly, where is it going?"

    Where would you like to go today?

    KFG

  9. Re:Happy Birthday! by yesthatguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahh...duct tape...fixes everything except ducts (pipes? :)

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    Yes! That guy!
  10. wimp enviornments by archen · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't do that with in WIMP environments, God bless 'em (how do you script a mouse movement?)


    The mouse has pretty good functinoality. For everything else, there's Perl.

  11. The writing is on the wall... by MrHat · · Score: 4, Funny

    UNIX must be next. Slashdot said so.

    Unless Slashdot's dying too. Then I may have to leave the basement. And that would suck.

  12. Just a few more years! by plagiarist · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is great news! In just a few more years, UNIX will be old enough to be elected president!