Unix
concept · 1969 · Digital age
The Bell Labs operating system.
Developers: Bell Labs, Ken Thompson, Dennis M. Ritchie, Brian Kernighan.
Principles and materials it uses
- C — uses. Unix was rewritten in C.
- Command line — uses. The shell.
History: what it evolved from and what it influenced
- Linux — inspired. A Unix-like system.
- Time-sharing — evolved from. It grew out of Multics.
- macOS — evolved into. Modern macOS is built on Unix.
What it is a kind of
- Operating system — is a kind of. An operating system.