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Year Event 1957 Bell Labs found they needed an operating system for their computer center that at the time was running various batch jobs. The BESYS operating system was created at Bell Labs to deal with these needs. 1965 Bell Labs was adopting third generation computer equipment and decided to join forces with General Electric and MIT to create Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service). 1969 By April 1969, AT&T made a decision to withdraw Multics and go with GECOS. When Multics was withdrawn Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie needed to rewrite an operating system in order to play space travel on another smaller machine (a DEC PDP-7 [Programmed Data Processor 4K memory for user programs). The result was a system that a punning colleague called UNICS (UNiplexed Information and Computing Service)--an 'emasculated Multics'. 1969 Summer 1969 Unix was developed. 1969 Linus Torvalds is born. 1971 First edition of Unix released 11/03/1971. The first edition of the "Unix PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL [by] K. Thompson [and] D. M. Ritchie.” It includes over 60 commands like: b (compile B program); boot (reboot system); cat (concatenate files); chdir (change working directory); chmod (change access mode); chown (change owner); cp (copy file); ls (list directory contents); mv (move or rename file); roff (run off text); wc (get word count); who (who is one the system). The main thing missing was pipes. 1972 Second edition of Unix released December 06, 1972. 1972 Ritchie rewrote B and called the new language C. 1973 Unix had been installed on 16 sites (all within AT&T/Western Electric); it was publically unveiled at a conference in October. 1973 Third edition of Unix released February 1973 1973 Forth edition of Unix released November 1973 1974 Fifth edition of Unix released June 1974 1974 Thompson went to UC Berkeley to teach for a year, Bill Joy arrived as a new graduate student. Frustrated with ed, Joy developed a more featured editor em. 1975 Sixth edition of Unix released May 1975 1975 Bourne shell is introduced begins being added onto. 1977 1BSD released late 1977 1978 2BSD released mid 1978 1979 Seventh edition of Unix released January 1979 1979 3BSD released late 1979 1979 SCO founded by Doug and Larry Michels as Unix porting and consulting company. 1980 4.0BSD released October 1980 1982 SGI introduces IRIX. 1983 SCO delivers its first packaged Unix system called SCO XENIX System V for Intel 8086 and 8088 processor-based PCs. 1983 The GNU operating system is first announced by Richard Stallman September 27, 1983. 1984 Ultrix 1.0 was released. 1985 Eighth edition of Unix released February 1985 1985 The GNU manifesto is published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal. The GNU project starts a year and a half later. 1986 HP-UX 1.0 released. 1986 Ninth edition of Unix released September 1986 1987 Sun and AT&T lay the groundwork for business computing in the next decade with an alliance to develop Unix System V Release 4. 1988 HP-UX 2.0 released. 1988 HP-UX 3.0 released. 1989 SCO ships SCO Unix System V/386, the first volume commercial product licensed by AT&T to use the Unix System trademark. 1989 HP-UX 7.0 released. 1989 Tenth edition of Unix released October 1989 1990 AIX short for Advanced Interactive eXecutive was first entered into the market by IBM February 1990. 1991 Sun unveils Solaris 2 operating environment, specially tuned for symmetric multiprocessing. 1991 Linux is introduced by Linus Torvalds, a student in Finland. 1991 HP-UX 8.0 released. 1991 BSD/386 ALPHA First code released to people outside BSDI 12/xx/1991 1992 HP-UX 9.0 released. 1993 NetBSD 0.8 released 04/20/1993 1993 FreeBSD 1.0 released December of 1993 1994 Red Hat Linux is introduced. 1994 Caldera, Inc was founded in 1994 by Ransom Love and Bryan Sparks. 1994 NetBSD 1.0 released 10/26/1994 1995 FreeBSD 2.0 released 01/xx/1995 1995 SCO acquires Unix Systems source technology business from Novell Corporation (which had acquired it from AT&T’s Unix System Laboratories). SCO also acquires UnixWare 2 operating system from Novell. 1995 HP-UX 10.0 released. 1995 4.4 BSD Lite Release 2 the true final distribution from the CSRG 06/xx/1995 1996 KDE is started to be developed by Matthias Ettrich 1997 HP-UX 11.0 released. 1997 Caldera ships OpenLinux Standard 1.1 May 5, 1997, the second offering in Caldera’s OpenLinux product line 1998 IRIX 6.5 the fifth generation of SGI Unix is released July 6, 1998. 1998 SCO delivers UnixWare 7 operating system. 1998 Sun Solaris 7 operating system released. 1998 FreeBSD 3.0 released 10/16/1998 2000 FreeBSD 4.0 released 03/13/2000 2000 Caldera Systems Inc. announces that Caldera Systems has entered into agreement to acquire the SCO Server Software Division and the Professional Services Division. 2001 Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th. 2001 Microsoft files a trademark suit against Lindows.com in December. 2004 Lindows changes it’s name to Linspire April 14, 2004. 2004 The first release of Ubuntu is released October 20, 2004.