{"id":10471,"date":"2011-12-11T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/12\/11\/the-birth-and-history-of-unix\/"},"modified":"2011-12-11T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:23:16","slug":"the-birth-and-history-of-unix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/the-birth-and-history-of-unix\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth and history of Unix"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;A door had slammed shut for Thompson and Ritchie in March of 1969, when their employer, the American Telephone &#038; Telegraph Co., withdrew from a collaborative project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric to create an interactive time-sharing system called Multics, which stood for &#8220;Multiplexed Information and Computing Service.&#8221; Time-sharing, a technique that lets multiple people use a single computer simultaneously, had been invented only a decade earlier. Multics was to combine time-sharing with other technological advances of the era, allowing users to phone a computer from remote terminals and then read e-mail, edit documents, run calculations, and so forth. It was to be a great leap forward from the way computers were mostly being used, with people tediously preparing and submitting batch jobs on punch cards to be run one by one&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/computing\/software\/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix\/0\">Check it out here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;A door had slammed shut for Thompson and Ritchie in March of 1969, when their employer, the American Telephone &#038; Telegraph Co., withdrew from a collaborative project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric to create an interactive time-sharing system called Multics, which stood for &#8220;Multiplexed Information and Computing Service.&#8221; Time-sharing, a technique &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/the-birth-and-history-of-unix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The birth and history of Unix<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2IT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}