[Novalug] Unix Birthday: Age 40 Today

Andrew Beals andrew.beals@gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 19:19:31 EST 2011


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 04:06:10PM -0600, Andrew Scott Beals wrote:
> > On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:53 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> >
> > >  The real question is "When was Unix born?"
> > >
> > > However, it seems like the UNIX PRM was published in 1971, as well as
> > > UNIX being ported to the PDP-11.
> >
> > The epoch is set to the DOB of one of the guy's daughters.  Midnight
> GMT, 1/1/70
> >
>
> First I heard that one.  In classes I suggested that a popular
> UNIX platform was the "seventy series" of the PDP-11 which was
> written PDP-11/70.
>
> It was easy to add an extra slash to get 1/1/70.
>
>
Introduced in 1975.
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