User:RDBrown/Idiosyncratic Unix timeline

(also hysterical raisins) A variant on the stock phrase “for historical reasons”

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

T.S. Eliot "Philip Massinger", a biographical essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)

• 1956 Stephen Cole Kleene describes regular languages — recursion theory, lambda calculus, textbooks in mathematical logic (in Wisconsin)
• 1957 Sputnik
• 1958 ARPA
• 1958 Lisp — Steve Russell, John McCarthy at MIT, IBM 704 (4k 36-bit wds) tube
• 1958 AT&T consent decree — restricted to running phone system
• 1959 Algol 60 — McCarthy proposed recursion and conditional expressions
• 1960 Dijkstra & Zonneveld write 1st Algol 60 compiler — recursive descent
• 1961 IBM Selectric typewriter
• 1961 MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) IBM 7090 (36-bit) transistor
• 1962 Lisp compiler — Tim Hart, Mike Levin at MIT
• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1962 Red LED ~USD200 each until 1968
• 1963 Mel Conway article on coroutines in a Cobol compiler (Comm. ACM)
• 1963 ASCII Standard
• 1963 Teletype ASR 33 ASCII, 10cps 72-col, USD700 (AT&T subsidiary)
• 1964 Multics — initial planning & devel MIT, GE, Bell Labs
  • GE-645 36-bit (transistor)
  • MIT Boston MA
  • Bell Labs headquarters, Murray Hill NJ 380–400km away
  • Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) Maynard MA
    • ~370–390km to Bell Labs, Murray Hill
    • ~40 km to MIT
  • hierarchical file system, command processor implemented as ordinary user code, ls, rm, cwd, ...
• 1964 IBM 360 family Architecture != Implementation (32-bit BE CISC)
• 1964 DIP package
• 1964 CSIRAC final shutdown
• 1966 Australia decimalizes
• 1967 New Zealand decimalizes
• 1967 BCPL compiler ported to CTSS by Martin Richards while visiting MIT
• 1968 Ken Thompson builds regexs into QED text editor (CTSS)
• 1968 Dijkstra Go To Statement Considered Harmful (title by N Wirth, Comm ACM)
• 1968 Knuth The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 1 published
• 1969 Bell labs pulls out of Multics project
• 1969 B language — stripped down BCPL Ken Thompson, & later Dennis Richie — compile to threaded stack VM
• 1969 first Unix on PDP-7 (8k x 18-bit wd) Ken Thompson
• 1969 first ARPANET message
• 1970 Unix on PDP-11/20 in assembler (=> Little-endian)
• 1971 Intel 4004
• 1971 UK Decimalizes
• 1972 C language, Dennis Richie, Unix rewritten in C
• 1972 HP-35 Scientific Calculator

• 1973 Ken Thompson adds Douglas McIlroy's pipe concept to Version 3 Unix

• 1975 MOS Tech 6502
• 1975 Dec VT52 Terminal
• 1976 Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code
• 1978 Intel 8086
• 1978 Dec VT102 Terminal
• 1979 Motorola 68000
• 1981 Microsoft Xenix 8086
• 1982 AT&T Divestiture
• 1982 Sun UNIX 0.7 68000 Sun-1
• 1983 TCP/IP as ARPANET principal protocol
• 1985 Intel 80386, ARM 1
• 1988 POSIX Standard

If filling it out, i'd be tempted to add everones PhD on first ref

ie Douglas McIlroy PhD (App. Math. MIT 1959)