The UNIX system has been in wide use for over 20 years, and has helped to define many areas of computing.
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The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley, which gave UNIX virtual memory and the reference implementation of TCP/IP.
VINT FUCKING CERF INVENTED THE FUCKBOY PAGE CACHE?????? THE ONE I CRASHED OUT AT THE AUSTIN GROUP FOR THIS MORNING???????
Berkeley Software Design, Incorporated (BSDI), The FreeBSD Project, and The NetBSD Project, which continue the work started by the CSRG.
that's an insult to my friend netbsd
The system was completely rewritten into C, leaving
almost no assembly language.
C EVANGELISM STRIKE FORCE
I FUCKING KNEW IT
A goal of the 4BSD project was to provide support for the DARPA Internet networking protocols, TCP/IP [Cerf & Cain, 1983]. The networking implementation was general enough to communicate among diverse network facilities, ranging from local networks, such as Ethernets and token rings, to long-haul networks, such as DARPA's ARPANET.
every SINGLE technology chosen by the internet is the worst version among MANY alternatives
The ease with which new ideas could be adopted into the system always has been key to the changes that have been made to it.
this author is the most embarrassing and he uses all this language like "invented" that i hate
people seem to like k&r though
in areas where Multics attempted to do many tasks, UNIX tried to do one task well.
bro
The basic organization of the UNIX filesystem, the
idea of using a user process for the command interpreter, the general organization of the filesystem interface, and many other system characteristics, come directly from Multics.
BRO THEY FUCKING STOLE ALL THIS SHIT TOO
louis pouzin created the word "shell"
