Well not many people know a whole lot about computers, outside of turn them and click on the IE icon. But even less know where it truly started from, well that I'm about to tell you about a revolutionary idea in computers; that was a true game changer. It started out in early 1970's, when Ken Ritchie and a few other's at AT&T's bell labs, wanted to save a old computer that his supervisor wanted to get rid of because it had "reached its end of life". Well like a lightening bolt it hit Ken Ritchie, then him and a very small group of people; went on to creating a operating system, which later was called Unix. An something else monumental came out of that tiny room to, a programming language called "C++", what Ken Thomas and Dennis Ritchie and the others didn't know was they were creating history in that tiny room at Bell Labs. Computers were starting to find to universities and government area's, outside of telephone companies! It crested ripple affect in the early IT industry, many things have happened since then; but the story is now history, now Plan 9 is Unix, it's going by Plan 9 now. An now what does Minix have to do with all this you ask? Well lemme be the first, Linus Torvalds wanted a kernel that operated similar to the one the university he was at the time, which was a SunOS computer, so he came across Minix; then downloaded and looked at the internals and then downloaded free tools from GNU. Like for example GCC and EMACS, GCC stands for GNU C Compiler, an EMACS is a text editor. Well after some time, the Linux kernel came to be and it's history,..especially to computer geeks like me!!!! '
SunOS Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS
The Linux kernel history wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
To download Plan 9:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html
To download Minix:
http://www.minix3.org/download/index.html
To report any broken or dead link's please email me.
