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- From: thomson@zarda.macc.wisc.edu (Don Thomson)
- Subject: Recent UNIX history materials
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 12 Sep 92 11:35:33
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- I teach a 16-hour non-credit UNIX overview course at our computing center.
- I've always included a discussion of the UNIX family tree so that students
- could understand the divergence from the original Bell Labs UNIX into BSD and
- SysV and the subsequent convergence back into some semblance of "standards" a
- couple of years ago in the form of the UNIX International and OSF camps. I've
- been using the same chart in my notes for those same couple of years, and
- obviously a lot has changed in that time. Can anyone point me to an online
- paper/chart/whatever that clearly outlines much more recent UNIX history to
- bring my own notes up to date? Now that USL has loosened its alliance with
- Sun, that DEC seems to be the the only remaining vendor fully committed to
- OSF/1, that USL, Univel, Sun, and NeXT are all targeting the desktop market,
- there's a lot more to the picture than what I have been presenting. If
- someone has already consolidated all of that information into some kind of
- document it would be most helpful.
-
- I'm always interested in what other people present in such overviews, so
- additionally, if anyone is aware of UNIX overview class materials in general
- that are available electronically, I'd enjoy looking at them. Thanks!
-