Talk:Unix

Article Checklist for "Unix"

Workgroup category or categories	Computers Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	--Eric M Gearhart 12:08, 31 March 2007 (CDT)--, Petréa Mitchell 11:06, 1 April 2007 (CDT)

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History

Should this article dip into "The History of Unix"? Or should that be on its own article? The History of Unix could easily fill up an entire other article... --Eric M Gearhart 12:12, 31 March 2007 (CDT)

OK in reply to myself this article is in dire need of a good, compelling History section. --Eric M Gearhart

I agree. Did Unix begin with AT&T, or was that just BSD? --Joshua David Williams 16:30, 14 April 2007 (CDT)

"In the Beginning there was Bell Labs, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie" - from Act 1, Genesis, the Unix Bible (New American octal translation)
No but seriously yes it all started at Bell Labs. BSD happened later. I need to get on writing this article and getting it to approval status; work keeps getting the way :( Eric M Gearhart

Emacs and vi?

Emacs and vi shouldn't be listed, should they? This is Unix software, not GNU. Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I've only ever used the free Unix toolkits. --Joshua David Williams 10:47, 6 April 2007 (CDT)

Yes that is true I suppose... vi was on the list, so naturally to "balance the Force" I added emacs. What do we define as "Unix" and "not Unix" though? The original "Kerrighan and Ritchie Unix" is Unix... anything after is not? Or should we have a list of tools at all? Hmm. --Eric M Gearhart 11:00, 6 April 2007 (CDT)

Perhaps we should split the list into two articles; GNU tools and Unix tools. --Joshua David Williams 11:05, 6 April 2007 (CDT)