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Episode 99 - The Berkeley Software Distribution

Advent of Computing

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UNIX V6 - The Golden Age of the Operating System

Ken Thompson was taking a sabbatical from Bell Labs to come out and teach at UC Berkeley. He helped install UNIX V6 on the comp side department's new computer. This is kind of the golden age of the operating system, at least during its research phase. It would be enshrined in Mayan's commentaries, an operating systems textbook.

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