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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. Re:don't forget to check your Unix systems... by man_ls · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Are you sure? I always thought it was


    jwkoebel@SERVER $ ps
    [1]: 666 /bin/laden
    jwkoebel@server $ kill -9 666
    Killed 1 process...


    Not only do we get to kill him, but the -9 signals core-dump, so his innards are removed before the killing.

    Fun for the masses.