Unix BSD Part 1

UNIX History

1. First developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of the Research Group at Bell Laboratories; incorporated features of other operating systems, especially MULTICS
2. The third version was written in C, which was developed at Bell Labs specifically to support UNIX
3. The most influential of the non-Bell Labs and non-AT&T UNIX development groups — University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley Software Distributions - BSD)
   
   • 4BSD UNIX resulted from DARPA funding to develop a standard UNIX system for government use
   • Developed for the VAX, 4.3BSD is one of the most influential versions, and has been ported to many other platforms
     
     
4. Several standardization projects seek to consolidate the variant flavors of UNIX leading to one programming interface to UNIX

History of UNIX Versions




Early Advantages of UNIX

• Written in a high-level language
• Distributed in source form
• Provided powerful operating-system primitives on an inexpensive platform
• Small size, modular, clean design

UNIX Design Principles

• Designed to be a time-sharing system
• Has a simple standard user interface (shell) that can be replaced
• File system with multilevel tree-structured directories
• Files are supported by the kernel as unstructured sequences of bytes
• Supports multiple processes; a process can easily create new processes
• High priority given to making system interactive, and providing facilities for program development

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