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Bell Labs Unix Group Disbanded

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sad-days-of-history dept.

wandazulu writes "Peter Salus over at UnixReview.com is reporting that AT&T Department 1127, responsible for creating and maintaining Unix, has been officially disbanded. The article provides an interesting "where are they now?" list of the original authors of Unix."

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  1. Serious question... by pVoid · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I'm curious to know what kind of research they did on Unix. To me, a kernel or OS is more about engineering than research. The word research conjures up Fourier Transforms in my mind, not round-robbin scheduler implementations.

    Anyone have any concrete examples of research that was done at Bell that went into UNIX as a system?