History of *nix

Eric Lévénez has produced pdf files with charts displaying the very complex history of Unix/Linux. They are available in different formats. For me, the plotter variant was the best to view in Okular with 125% as you can easily scroll through the time axis.

A history of Windows is also available on his site.

 

That's some serious geeky stuff Thanks!
That Eric guy looks like a uber-major hacker ... he can probably melt your brain talking about VT100 or suchlike.
Mrk

 

If you want more than a diagram, you have to read Eric S. Raymond's "The Art Of Unix Programming." In chapter 2, he gives a nice overview of Unix history.

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/historychapter.html

 

Good and interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

 

Oo thanks.