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UNIX:
Developed 1969 (first C - version 1971)
by Ken Thompson at AT\&T Bell Labs,
Many new versions (IBM, SGI, SUN, Novell, BSD, etc),
standard 1991: SVR4 (System V Release 4).
2001:
Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification unites IEEE POSIX,
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Linux:
Started 1991 by Linus Torvalds
(student at University of Helsinki, Finland),
1994: version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released.
Current version is 2.4 (released January
2001). Development continues ....