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Marshall Kirk McKusick: Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix

发表于 : 2013-05-02 11:45
acheng
又看到这篇文章,所以跟大家分享一下。这是一篇99年的文章,对于了解BSD的历史以及它与Unix的关系很有帮助。
作者Marshall Kirk McKusick是加州大学Berkerly分校教授,当时的CSRG小组的成员,FFS文件系统的主要实现者

Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable
Marshall Kirk McKusick
Early History

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie presented the first Unix paper at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles at Purdue University in November 1973. Professor Bob Fabry, of the University of California at Berkeley, was in attendance and immediately became interested in obtaining a copy of the system to experiment with at Berkeley.

At the time, Berkeley had only large mainframe computer systems doing batch processing, so the first order of business was to get a PDP-11/45 suitable for running with the then-current Version 4 of Unix. The Computer Science Department at Berkeley, together with the Mathematics Department and the Statistics Department, were able to jointly purchase a PDP-11/45. In January 1974, a Version 4 tape was delivered and Unix was installed by graduate student Keith Standiford.

Although Ken Thompson at Purdue was not involved in the installation at Berkeley as he had been for most systems up to that time, his expertise was soon needed to determine the cause of several strange system crashes. Because Berkeley had only a 300-baud acoustic-coupled modem without auto answer capability, Thompson would call Standiford in the machine room and have him insert the phone into the modem; in this way Thompson was able to remotely debug crash dumps from New Jersey.
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