Introduction
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Introduction
Who I am
About the
class
History and
background of Unix
Unix Camps
Who I am
About the class
- Check out the syllabus
- Note that many of the topics are indicated as "no book." Lecture attendance is in your best interest, as the textbooks are supplemental to the content of the course, rather than being the bulk of the content. I will try really hard to burn students who cut corners on class attendance.
- Notes in the course are strongly based on those from Instructor Geoff Allen, who has taught 224 in recent semesters (and may substitute for me a few times this one)
History and
background of Unix
Internet:
ARPANET (first internet) built by BBN
Ported to a PDP-11/20
C programming language invented by Dennis Ritchie to make it easier
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie re-wrote kernel in C
Internet: TCP/IP protocol
developed
$100 for universities, $21,000 for everyone else
3BSD adds virtual memory
Internet: first middleware research starts at BBN
System V, Release 3 (Usually written Vr3 or V.3)
Internet: Object
Management Group (OMG) formed to standardize CORBA middleware.
Sun and AT&T. Attempted to combine the best of System V and BSD
Open Software Foundation (OSF) formed
Unix sold to X/Open Consortium
Internet:
about now middleware start becoming “best practices” for distributed computing.
The web takes off, Unix is the
primary server platform (often Sun Microsystems’ Solaris),
demand soars
2000-2005 (roughly)
Cloud computing starts gaining traction; Some of its ideas came form earlier “grid computing” R&D.
Unix Camps
Getting going with
Linux
The easiest way for you to start using Linux (for EECS students) is to get the putty (“ssh”) program. You can log into ssh1.eecs.wsu.edu. We will demonstrate that next lecture.