On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > This is mostly academic meaning it is useless.
It is not academic, need to cite references; I agree with the latter part of the sentence. There are many reference material on this subject. I would urge members to read them and draw their own conclusions. A nice time line of Unix, Linux and variants. <http://www.computerhope.com/history/unix.htm> UNIX ------ Paper by Dennis Ritchie: <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html> The Open Groups' which now owns the Unix trademark and gives Unix certification: <http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html> Wikepedia write up. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix> LINUX -------- Linux's history (collection of posts by Linus Torvalds) <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html> Wikipedia write up <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux> see the History section BSD ----- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution> -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
