Multics project way back in 1965 (MAC - Multiple Access Computers project) ◦ simultaneous computer access to large community (1st time share) ◦ easy data sharing between users • AT&T/ Bell Labs says enough we are stopping multics project it failed (1969) • Multics later finished in 1972 Very Brief History of Unix...
as they needed on OS for a PDP-7 to play space travel game • The result was system which a punning colleague called UNICS (UNiplexed Information and Computing Service) -- an 'emasculated Multics'; soon changed to UNIX Very Brief History of Unix...
written on PDP-7 in 1969, then PDP- 11 on 1970 • 1973, Ritchie and Thompson rewrote kernel in C as 1st portable operating system (hardware independent) UNIX Created
source code to universities since not in computer business, and was picked up by Berkley forking to BSD 1977 • SUNos from BSD as well as openbsd, netbsd, next, macos • Xenix - MS's UNIX, later by SCO • ATT goes commercial system V - 1979 • Posix standard to get best of BSD and V • Linux Flavors of *nix
multics was for error recovery Ritchie -- "We left all that stuff out. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, "Hey, reboot it" Error Code.. bah hum bug...
Dennis Ritchie - C, fork-exec,db,ed, fortran • Steve Bourne - bourne shell (sh), adb,.. • Bill Joy - BSD UNIX, vi, csh, and founder of SUN micro, adding TCP/IP to BSD.. • Brian Kernigham - name UNIX, awk, troff, eqn,.. UNIX Hall of Fame
(easy to add to scripts, commands, ...) • Robust (rare crashing, permissions, simple filesystem used for files,disks, devices, pipes,...) • Tools (many from the early days to years and years of contributed tools) -- modular The Power of UNIX
and easy to mount a disk anywhere • easy to navigate hierarchical file system and links • file system i/o, is all the same regardless if a file, device, network stream, pipe, stdin (fd = 0) ,stdout (fd = 1) , stderr (fd =2), - , /dev/null ◦ all progs have access to stdin/stdout/stderr The Power of UNIX
\ -- extend a line or quote char • < > -- redirect input , output • << >> -- redirect append input , output | -- pipe output • ` -- run command and place output as .. • " -- quote input as a unit • ' -- quote without variable replace Some special chars
*, [a-z] char matching.. • ~ , users home dir shortcut • cat file >afile 2>&1 (stderr to stdout) ◦ but not cat file 2>&1 >afile • ..... Some special chars
VISUAL or EDITOR • ^a - front of line, ESC-a (sentence) • ^e - end of line, ESC-e (sentence) • ^k - kill line • ^y - yank kill ring • ^p - previous line • ^n - Next line • <tab> completion for files Command line editing