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| | Unix wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Unix wars were the struggles between vendors of the Unix computer operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s to set the standard for Unix henceforth. | | | In the mid-1980s, the two common versions of Unix were BSD, from the University of California at Berkeley, and System V, from ATandT. | | | In 1996, X/Open and the OSF merged to form the Open Group, whose Single UNIX Specification is now the single standard for proprietary Unix. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
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| | Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 |
| | Unix was born in 1969 out of the mind of a computer scientist at Bell Laboratories, Ken Thompson. | | | Unix was very close to being the first system under which a programmer could sit down directly at a machine and compose programs on the fly, exploring possibilities and testing while composing. | | | In fact, for years after divestiture the Unix community was preoccupied with the first phase of the Unix wars — an internal dispute, the rivalry between System V Unix and BSD Unix. |
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http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch02s01.html
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| | Unix Operating System |
| | Unix caused the creation of the popular C programming language, and helped establish Internet networking in academic environments. | | | Our own installation is used mainly for research in operating systems, languages, computer networks, and other topics in computer science, and also for document preparation. | | | Most of them are engaged in applications such as computer science education, the preparation and formatting of documents and other textual material, the collection and processing of trouble data from various switching machines within the Bell System, and recording and checking telephone service orders. |
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http://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix.htm
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| | One more battle in the Unix wars - theage.com.au |
| | SCO claims that Big Blue is using parts of Unix code, which it licenses for its AIX version of Unix, in its input into Linux, the open-source version of Unix that is fast becoming popular as a server operating system. | | | Unix was invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, two software engineers at Bell Labs, the research division of US communications giant AT&T. They wanted an easy-to-use operating system for a PDP-7, one of the first minicomputers. | | | Another was the development of Linux, an open-source version of Unix. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/31/1048962684863.html
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| | Unix Standards |
| | The problem for the new-school Unixes, therefore, was not API compatibility at the source-code level. | | | The Unix standards that evolved after 1985 were quite successful at this — so much so that they serve as valuable documentation of the API of modern Unix implementations. | | | The original motivation for the development of Unix standards was the split between the ATandT and Berkeley lines of development that we examined in Chapter 2. |
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http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch17s02.html
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| | The UNIX System -- History and Timeline -- UNIX History |
| | Universities, research institutes, government bodies and computer companies all began using the powerful UNIX system to develop many of the technologies which today are part of a UNIX system. | | | Soon all the large vendors, and many smaller ones, were marketing their own, diverging, versions of the UNIX system optimized for their own computer architectures and boasting many different strengths and features. | | | In 1995 SCO bought the UNIX Systems business from Novell, and UNIX system source code and technology continues to be developed by SCO. |
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http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
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| | UNIX: A Practical Definition |
| | Some of the drift in the meaning of UNIX is due to legal quandaries; some of it is the result of various commercial "UNIX wars" that have been waged over the years; some of it results from battles of wit and mind, with superior but unorthodox technologies winning over inferior authorized ones. | | | Linguistic -- The name "Unix" was intended as a pun on the name Multics and was written "Unics" at first, for UNiplexed Information and Computing System. | | | Official UNIX systems and unofficial UNIX systems are commonly treated as belonging to a single category -- in books, in media coverage, on the net, and by general social consensus. |
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http://www.albion.com/security/intro-1.html
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| | The unity of Unix Tech News on ZDNet |
| | Unix detractors invariably talk about the fracturing of Unix and refer disparagingly to what they call the "Unix wars" of the 1980s, but in reality even the most widely divergent Unix products generally differed in implementation detail and hardware support, not in concept. | | | The computer science side of the turf wars that took place at MIT during the early 1960s run up to the Multics development decision wanted the system to act as a focal point for the development of a community of users with openly published source code. | | | Of these, Linux is fundamentally still what it set out to be: Freax (pronounced freeux), a free Unix for the 386; the BSDs continue the research heritage while powering four million new Macs a year; and Solaris is leading the migration to next-generation Unix by implementing true network computing on the Plan9 model. |
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5806608.html
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| | OS News: Features: Small Operating Systems |
| | GCOS is not a Unix, but is still the operating system "closest" to Multics in terms of the number of utilities existing to port software from the latter. | | | These vendors tend to have special features or applications in their Unix environments which were designed to help communicate with or emulate the older OS. | | | Currently, there are four projected Unix variants making their case to be the "official" Unix of the next millennium. |
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http://old.osnews.com/features/03.99/unixwars.html
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| | Divide And Conquer Yourself |
| | In 1985, when I wrote code for my UNIX machine, it worked on all the other UNIX machines because there was basically a single flavor of UNIX, which all used the same compiler, and everything just worked. | | | As a UNIX system administrator with 20+ years experience, and a Windows system administrator since Windows 1.0, I can tell you that there isn't a whole lot of difference in the work-load of efficiently running either environment. | | | Because the UNIX wars didn't end and, consequently, the "last man standing" is still Microsoft / Intel. |
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http://www.ranum.com/editorials/divide-conquer
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| | Unix Wars of 1987-1993 |
| | In 1987, ATandT entered an alliance to develop a standard Unix version with Sun Microsystems, the leading vendor of the BSD Unix variant. | | | In 1989, USL released SVR4, which integrated the System V and BSD Unix baselines that brought the best features from the many versions of UNIX into a single unified system. | | | The technical issues soon took a back seat to what can be charitably described as competitive maneuverings which got the historic name of "UNIX wars." Those wars were not without positive results: they lead to creation of Portable Operating System Interface Specifications (POSIX). |
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http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/unix_wars_and_posix.shtml
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| | MacOPINION: Jeff Lewis |
| | Those of us who just want to use our computers, not have to be a Unix guru or write a perl script to find our files. | | | Jeff Lewis has been a programmer analyst for 24 years and started programming commercially about the same time Unix and the original microprocessor was released. | | | In fact, Linux is, in many ways, more important that MacOS X. But that doesn't mean we'll be running it on our desktops - at least not just yet. |
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http://www.macopinion.com/columns/macskeptic/oct98/981009.html
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| | IT-Director.com: UNIX Wars Heat Up |
| | It is clear that the vendors of UNIX systems are becoming very aggressive despite the effects of world's economic gloom. | | | Many of these moves have occurred several months in advance of the original road map targets for these machines and indicate that IBM is targeting the UNIX market, and is looking to continue the expansion in its market share that has taken place over the last year or so. | | | Over the last few months Hewlett Packard, the third member of the heavyweight data centre UNIX server club, has also been active in its marketing of its range of UNIX machines, from entry level servers up to the top end Superdome systems. |
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http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=2776
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| | Macworld: News: Hubbard talks about UNIX and Apple |
| | UNIX users are also usually prepared to add features to programs they like or fix bugs as they spot them. | | | One UNIX user said that he loved iPhoto, but he was disappointed that it could not rotate preview shots 90 degrees. | | | Hubbard said that the benefits of UNIX users using Mac OS X extends past OpenGL to all multimedia, something that UNIX developers backed off from because of their computing culture. |
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/10/02/hubbard
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| | CNETAsia : Printer Friendly - HP fighting back in Unix server wars |
| | The technology, first introduced in Unix servers by Sun but now used by HP and IBM, means numerous smaller servers can be replaced by a larger, easier to manager machine. | | | The effect is multiplied because HP's designs will be able to run Windows and Linux as well as its HP-UX version of Unix. | | | Itanium family chips will first appear in traditional HP Unix servers in mid-2002, when four-processor L-class systems will accommodate McKinley designs, Hudson said. |
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http://asia.cnet.com/news/systems/printfriendly.htm?AT=38028030-39037054t-39000006c
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| | MacEdition : News Analysis : October 4, 2002 |
| | What kept Unix alive until its “second renaissance,” according to Hubbard, was that “the essential tool-building philosophy is a good one,” plus the compelling nature of open systems and the general talent of the remaining Unix community. | | | Hubbard said that even though API standardization was lacking, various Unices were still more in common at a low level than in terms of usability; as Sun, ATandT, HP, OSF and others all cooked their own user interfaces. | | | “Since Unix was perceived not to be user-friendly, this conclusion was self-perpetuating,” Hubbard said. |
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http://www.macedition.com/news/news_oreilly_20021004.php
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| | The Art of Unix Programming |
| | Is Emacs an Argument against the Unix Tradition? | | | A Unix File Is Just a Big Bag of Bytes | | | The Lessons of Unix Can Be Applied Elsewhere |
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| | [admin] [OT] Unix Wars |
| | It told all the Unix types what to avoid when moving into Linux. | | | On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Wm.G.McGrath wrote: > Ask yourself this, what exactly did the unix community learn from the > Unix Wars? | | | It why all the main Unix players that have embraced open source (with the notable exception of Sun) have played nicely by the Linux community, tend to use GPL rather than BSD type licenses for their projects, and (in the case of IBM and HP) don't even make their own distributions. |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/admin@linux.ca/msg00363.html
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| | Dave Farquhar's Silicon Underground - Publishing again, and Unix holy wars |
| | I talked with our Unix guru at work yesterday. | | | Dave Farquhar's Silicon Underground - Publishing again, and Unix holy wars | | | He runs Linux and NetBSD at home almost exclusively, so he definitely has his finger on the pulse of the movement. |
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http://dfarq.homeip.net/article.php?story=1158
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| | HP Heats Up Unix Server Wars with Rebate |
| | Hewlett-Packard attempted to fortify its position in the high-end server market Tuesday when it announced a new program designed to entice IBM and Sun Microsystems customers to move to its Superdome server. | | | HP Heats Up Unix Server Wars with Rebate | | | Learn how choosing the right load balancer can help you maximize the performance potential of server farms. |
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| | Date: 18 Sep 87 18:08:20 GMT Organization: Network 23 AI Research Group If anyone knows who wrote the original 'DEC Wars', please tell me...I'd like to try to publish this thing, properly giving credit to the originator. | | | Article 1952 of misc.wanted: >From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,misc.wanted,rec.arts.sf-lovers,rec.humor Subject: UNIX Wars! | | | Now, striking from a hidden directory, they win their first victory. |
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http://www.insecure.org/stf/unixwars.txt
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| | Tuxedo: NJYASL |
| | Mr Kay said in Monday’s New York Times that Iraq had tried to revive its nuclear-arms programme as recently as 2001 and had been trying, shortly before the war, to make a bomb containing ricin, a deadly poison. | | | Nevertheless, his conclusion that Saddam had no large stocks of banned weapons—and therefore was not an immediate threat to the world—has damaged Mr Bush and Mr Blair. |
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