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From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:11:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfojZpZMk4Cu-gy2_XX_6gySCg67xEMx_-sZtoU5dATTkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180110033459.GB27612@eureka.lemis.com>

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday,  9 January 2018 at 10:30:18 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> > Hi all, Happy New Year. As it's now only eighteen months to the Unix 50th
> > Anniversary, ...
>
> So we have an exact date?  What happened on that day?
>

PDP-7 Unix has a date of Jan 1, 1970 date in the TUHS tree. Wikipedia cites
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch02s01.html as saying it was developed in
1969, but is not more specific. I've seen references to the summer of 1969
Ken starting to write the paper filesystem.

Warner
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10  4:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09  0:30 Warren Toomey
2018-01-09  0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09  2:16   ` Noel Hunt
2018-01-09  2:38     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09  7:30 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-09 18:09 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10  3:34 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10  4:11   ` Warner Losh [this message]
2018-01-10  5:23     ` George Michaelson
2018-01-10  6:25       ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-10  6:53         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 10:57           ` Warren Toomey
2018-01-10 16:53             ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-10 13:23         ` Andy Kosela
2018-01-10 23:48           ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-11  0:06             ` George Michaelson
2018-01-11 22:08             ` Robert Brockway
2018-01-11  1:22 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-11 21:45 ` Clem Cole

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