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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. forking by Kiro · · Score: 5, Funny

    fork ()

    GCC error: The Oracle says, there is no fork

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  4. 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.