UNIX hits the Big Three-Oh

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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How to draw timelines and other graphs

[GGardner]

This groovy timeline was probably drawn with the graphviz package, which is probably the coolest download you've never heard of:

graphviz