Henry's Points

Ethernet

Birth Year: 1973

Father: Robert M. Metcalfe

C Language

Birth Year: 1973

Father: Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratiries

C was developed from 1969 to 1973 by Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories. The American National Standard Institute (ANSI) ratified the ANSI C standard in 1989. The standard defines the C language and a set of library functions known as the C standard library. Kernighan and Ritchie describe ANSI C in their classic book, which is known affectionately as “K&R”. In Ritchie’s words, C is “quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

GNU Project

Birth Year: 1984

Father: Richard Stallman

The GNU project is a tax-exempt charity started by Richard Stallman in 1984, with the ambitious goal of developing a complete Unix-like system whose source code is unencumbered by restrictions on how it can be modified or distributed. As of 2002, the GNU project has developed an environment with all the major components of a Unix operation system, except for the kernel, which was developed separately by the Linux project.

Linux

Birth Year: 1991

Father: Linus Torvalds

From:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroup: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki. 

Hello everybody out there using minix- 

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big
and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has
been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like
any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS
resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem
due to practical reasons)among other things. 

I've currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that i'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd
like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome,
but I won't promise I'll implement them   

Linus Torvalds torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi

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