{"id":179,"date":"2005-08-21T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2008-04-30T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T18:13:44","slug":"original-unix-lab-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/21\/original-unix-lab-dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Unix Lab Dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original lab that invented Unix at AT&#038;T has officially been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unixreview.com\/documents\/s=9846\/ur0508l\/ur0508l.html\" target=\"_blank\">shut down<\/a>. This very team started it all: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FreeBSD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenBSD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/products1\/unix\/operating\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">HP HP-UX<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/h30097.www3.hp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compaq Tru64<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux<\/a> (RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo&#8230; etc), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCO Unix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-1.ibm.com\/servers\/aix\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBM AIX<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/solaris\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Microsystems Solaris<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgi.com\/products\/software\/irix\/\" target=\"_blank\">SGI IRIX<\/a> and then of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac OSX<\/a>, all of which derived from the original Unix conceived at the Bell Labs.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is Microsoft, DOS and then Windows (3.1 through XP), the legacy Mac OS, and let&#8217;s not forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamos2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OS\/2<\/a>. There are others that never made it to the mainstream, but who cares.<\/p>\n<p>After looking at this large list of Unix operating systems v.s. the rest, it&#8217;s a no brainer that Apple decided to go with a Unix-based strategy to capitalize on its maturity and stability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original lab that invented Unix at AT&#038;T has officially been shut down. This very team started it all: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP HP-UX, Compaq Tru64, Linux (RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo&#8230; etc), SCO Unix, IBM AIX, Sun Microsystems Solaris, SGI IRIX and then of course, Mac OSX, all of which derived from the original Unix conceived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/21\/original-unix-lab-dismantled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Original Unix Lab Dismantled&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-linuxunix","category-mac-osx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-2T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}