UNIX History
Sunday, August 17th, 2008UNIX is developed in 1969 in the University of Berkley with name BSD UNIX, since then in number of UNIX flavors had introduced in commercial and government organizations.
But if you see the availability in today’s market, there are few popular flavors available. It is amazing that different platforms of hardware supported different flavors of UNIX .
For Example;
1. HP has its proprietary version of UNIX called as HP-UX operating system work only on HP machines.
2. IBM has its own version for there hardware which is known as AIX UNIX
3. Of course there is another big name is called SUN Systems, that have SUN SOLARIS UNIX flavor for there SUN Spark machines
4. SCO UNIX is one of the popular UNIX for the Intel based PCs
5. There was also a famous UNIX called TRUE64 UNIX form the digital systems But digital system does not exist any more cause it is taken over by COMPAQ and then HP itself and HP supports both HP-UX UNIX and TRUE64-UNIX
As I mention earlier in number of flavors of UNIX available in the market, the scope of this article is not to discuss whole history instead focus on to teach important tasks to the beginners.