The History of Unix

  There are many versions of the development and early history of Unix, and many are inaccurate. Peter Salus' book A Quarter Century of UNIX has the authorative description of Unix's early history, although you should also consult Life With UNIX by Don Libes and Sandy Ressler for a similar description.

A timeline of Unix development taken from `Life With Unix' is available, with some of the dates altered to reflect the details in `A Quarter Century of Unix'. If any other dates are inaccurate, please let me know.

There are some on-line documents which describe Unix's history. Some of these hotlinks seem to be broken.



Warren Toomey
Wed Feb 21 12:10:14 EST 1996