5.1 Week 1 - Introduction

• Wait for people to find classroom.
• Introduce my self.
• Take attendance.
• Go over Syllabus
• Describe X2 & Lab & Kermit
• Go over Grading Policy, Attendance Policy
• URL for class Red's home page
• What is "UNIX". History. Expert friendly.
• Demand for "UNIX" skills
• History of UNIX
  • PDP-7 at Bell Technical Labs
  • PDP-11 for text processing
  • Transfer of code to universities and back to Bell Labs
  • Berkeley Networking Code
  • Diverging ports by vendors and POSIX, specialized markets
  • Breakup of AT&T, Creation of USL, Sale to Novell & SCO
  • Free Software Foundation, Lawsuit, 386BSD, "mentally contaminated"
  • Linux & Linus
• Lab time for First two labs