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Where Did UNIX Come From And Why Are There Different Versions Of UNIX? Beginning of Paper ? The first efforts at developing a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system were begun in the 1960's in a development project called MULTICS. While working for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1969 and 1970, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie began to develop their own single-user, mul .... Middle of Paper .... they did share this operating system with many universities - most notably UC-Berkeley. This led to some of the variations in UNIX which we see today. After the divestiture of the Bell System, their parent company, AT&T, became much more interested in marketing a commercial version of UNIX. And today we see that many companies have now licensed their own version: AT&T's System V, Versions of System V such as SCO's Xenix and IBM's AIX Berkeley's UNIX (called "BSD" for "Berkeley System Development"), Versions of Berkeley .... 276 words | 2 pages Subscription Length Price Join 30 days membership (recurring) $19.95 90 days membership (recurring) $39.95 180 days membership (non-recurring) $69.95