Word: unix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakup, the company for more than 30 years has been developing and building them for telephone-call switching, billing and other internal needs. In 1947 scientists at A T& T's Bell Laboratories invented the transistor, which laid the foundation for microchips. The company also created the UNIX computer operating system, which has been licensed to more than 2,200 businesses, universities and government agencies in the U.S. and ten other countries since the early...
College-age pranksters sometimes get more serious. University of California students at Berkeley figured out an undetectable way to crack a popular time-sharing system called UNIX, which would have allowed them to copy, change or destroy the data of thousands of users. As yet there is no evidence that they have committed any crime. Indeed, the wise guys tipped off authorities, leaving an anonymous warning in the university's electronic mail system that deliberately drew attention to their discovery. "They did the responsible thing," says M. Stuart Lynn, director of computing affairs at Berkeley, "they didn...