The following article appeared (in German) on the German UUG net and

SubNet. It tells a short history of Unix in the German Democratic Republic.

The original author (Guenther Fischer) can be reached at

[email protected] .

Translation and redistribution is with the author's permission.

The original can be had by emailing me ( [email protected] ).

Peter Lamb

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Integrated Systems Laboratory

ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich

UNIX at the TUK/IF

Attempt at a private history.

Technical University Karl-Marx-Stadt, Computer Science Department

Guenther Fischer und Matthias Clausz

Translation Peter Lamb, ETH Zurich, with the kind permission of the authors.

Getting started

1982 - our department had none of its own students (a department without

students is like a dried-out tree) - we were more a service department

for the whole school (teaching and technical computing services).

Our computing base was 2 ESER I machines (alias IBM…