Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.


Preface.


Introduction
I. GENESIS.

 0. Prelude to Space.
 1. Summer 1969-Fall 1970.
 2. Calculating and Computing.
 3. Operating Systems.
 4. Project MAC: CTSS and Multis
II. BIRTH OF A SYSTEM.

 5. The PDP-11.
 6. First Edition, 1971.
 7. C and Pipes: 1971-1973.
 8. The First Paper-1973.
 9. The Law-Part I.
Status 1974.
III. WHAT MAKES UNIX UNIX?

10. The Users.
11. Why Unix?
12. Style and Tools.
13. PWB and MERT.
14. Utilities.
IV. UNIX SPREADS AND BLOSSOMS.

15. The Users-Part II.
16. Berkeley Unix: Part I.
17. Version 7.
18. Berkeley Unix: Part II.
19. Commercial Unix.
20. DEC.
21. The Law-Part II.
V. THE UNIX INDUSTRY.

22. /usr/group.
23. Sun and JAWS.
24. Standards.
VI. THE CURRENTS OF CHANGE.

25. Duelling Unixes.
26. Offspring Systems.
27. OSF and UI.
28. Berkeley Unix: After the VAX.
29. The Law-Part III.
VII. FINALIE.

Finale: What Made It Work?
Further Reading.
Who's Who and What's What.
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About the Author

About Peter H. Salus

Peter H. Salus is an internationally recognized UNIX enthusiast and author of A Quarter Century of UNIX, also published by Addison-Wesley. He is the managing editor of the quarterly journal, Computer Systems. He is the author of a number of books, articles and reviews. Salus has an undergraduate degree in chemistry, a master's in Germanic languages, and a doctorate in linguistics from New York University.



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