Introduction to Unix
Homework 1

The following questions are about the history of Unix. Hint: Web pages at
the following URLs may help.

http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney//unixhistory.htm
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html

1. When did the first version of Unix come out?

2. Who first gave the OS its original name of UNICS and what does this
   acronym stand for?

3. Who were the authors of Unix?

4. Where (organization) was Unix designed and written?

5. When (year) was Unix rewritten in C?

6. Who was the first customer of Unix and what application did they use it for?

7. What was added to early versions of Unix that later was realized to
   give Unix it own philosophy?

8. Who said "the philosophy that everyone started to put forth was 'Write
   programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
   together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a
   universal interface.' "

9. When did BSD Unix come out?

10. When was TCP/IP implemented in the Unix kernel and in which Unix flavor?

11. Who created the C language and when?