Some people think Unix is less than 40 years old, when in fact, it is much, much older than that.
While the originals have been destroyed, I uncovered a 132-column printout (on green-white form feed paper) of the following transcript which is evidence of the true origins of not only the oldest version of Unix, but the very origins of the Universe.
Lest you think I exaggerate, read on.
universe login: god Password: ******* Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 01 0000 # mknod heavens # mknod earth # touch light # ls -l light -rw-r--r-- 1 lord root 0 Jan 01 0000 light # wall light is good ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # mv /darkness/light /light # ln -s light day # ln -s darkness night # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 02 0000 # mknod expanse between the waters to separate water from water mknod: too many arguments # mknod sky # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 03 0000 # mknod water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear mknod: too many arguments # mknod land # ln -s gathered_waters seas # wall land and sees are good ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # mknod land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds mknod: too many arguments # touch seed # cat seed > fruit # cat fruit > trees # touch seed-bearing_plants # cat seed-bearing_plants trees > vegetation # cat vegetation > /dev/land # wall vegetation, seed-bearing plants and trees and fruit are good ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:02 ... ---more--- # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 04 0000 # mknod lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth. mknod: too many arguments # mknod night # mknod seasons # mknod days # mknod years # mknod sun # mknod moon # wall night, seasons, days, years, sun and moon are good ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 05 0000 # mknod water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky mknod: too many arguments # mknod living_creatures # mknod birds # wall living_creatures and birds are good ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # bless living_creatures birds bless: command not found # chmod 777 living_creatures birds # write living_creatures Message from god@universe on ttyp1 at 0:02 ... Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth. ^D EOF # write birds Message from god@universe on ttyp1 at 0:02 ... Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth. ^D EOF # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 06 0000 mknod the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind mknod: too many arguments # touch livestock # touch creatures # touch wild_animals # cat livestock creatures wild_animals > /dev/land # wall livestock, creatures, and wild_animals are good ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # bless livestock creatures wild_animals bless: command not found # chmod 777 livestock creatures wild_animals # wall Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # adduser man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground too many arguments # adduser Adding a new user. The username should not exceed 8 characters in length, or you may run into problems later. Enter login name for new account (^C to quit): man Editing information for new user [man] Full Name: Man GID [100]: Group 'users', GID 100 First unused uid is 100 UID [100]: Home Directory [/earth/man]: Shell [/bin/sh]: Password [man]: ****** Information for new user [man]: Home directory: [/earth/man] Shell: [/bin/sh] uid: [100] gid: [100] Is this correct? [y/N]: y User [man] added # chown fish man # chown birds man # chown livestock man # chown earth man # chown creatures man # bless man bless: command not found # chmod 777 man # write man Message from god@universe on ttyp1 at 0:02 ... Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground ^D EOF # write man Message from god@universe on ttyp1 at 0:03 ... I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food. ^D EOF # wall man is good ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 07 0000 # rest rest: command not found # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 08 0000 # mv /earth/man /earth/eden # ls -l /earth/eden total 0 # mv /earth/eden /earth/man # mkdir /earth/eden # mv /earth/man /earth/eden # ls -l /earth/eden drwxr-xr-x 3 man users 1024 Jan 6 00:01 man drwxr-xr-x 3 god users 1024 Jan 6 00:01 garden # write man You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die. ^D EOF # echo "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him" It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him # touch /etc/nologin # mv /earth/eden/man/rib /earth/eden/woman # rm /etc/nologin Message from man@universe on ttyp2 at 8:00 ... This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called `woman' for she was taken out of man. # finger man Login: man Name: man Directory: /earth/eden/man Shell: /bin/sh On since Sat Jan 06 14:16 (ET) on ttyp2 from eden.earth.universe.com 1 second idle No mail. No Plan. # write man Where are you? ^D EOF # Message from man@universe (ttyp2): I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid. # write man Who told you you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? ^D EOF # Message from man@universe (ttyp2): The woman you put here with me--she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it. # write woman What is this you have done? ^D EOF # Message from woman@universe (ttyp3): The serpent deceived me, and I ate. # write serpent Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. ^D EOF # write woman I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. ^D EOF # write man Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, `You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. ^D EOF # touch skin # mv skin clothes # mv skin /earth/eden/man # touch skin # mv skin clothes # mv skin /earth/eden/woman # wall The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # mv /earth/eden/man /earth/ # mv /earth/eden/woman /earth/ # chmod 000 /earth/eden # cherubimd --sword=flaming --direction=flashing_back_and_forth --dir /home/eden Cherubimd started, protecting Eden. # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 09 0000 You have new mail. # mail Message from: abel@earth.universe.com Dear God: I have placed fat portions of some of the firstborn of my flock on /dev/altar. Do as you please with them. Your servant, Abel. EOM # chmod 777 /earth/abel # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 10 0000 You have new mail. # mail Message from: cain@earth.universe.com Why did you not bless me? You did not look with favor upon me and my offering? Signed, Cain. EOM # finger cain Login: cain Name: cain Directory: /earth/cain Shell: /bin/sh On since Sat Jan 06 08:16 on ttyp4 from earth.universe.com. No mail. No Plan. # write cain Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it. # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Jan 11 0000 # who god ttyp1 Jan 10 8:26 (heaven.universe.com) adam ttyp2 Jan 10 8:42 (earth.universe.com) eve ttyp3 Jan 10 9:23 (earth.universe.com) cain ttyp4 Jan 10 13:24 (earth.universe.com) # write cain Where is your brother Abel? ^D EOF # Message from cain@earth (ttyp4): I don't know, am I my brother's keeper? # write cain What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth. ^D EOF # Message from cain@earth (ttyp4): My punishment is more than I can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me. # write cain Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over. ^D EOF # chmod 666 /earth/cain # logout ... some time passes ... universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 # wall My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # wall I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # ls -l /home/earth/noah drwxr-xr-x 3 noah users 1024 Jan 6 00:01 noah # ls -l /home/earth/ ... violence, evil, corruption ... # finger noah Login: noah Name: noah Directory: /earth/noah Shell: /bin/sh On since 08:11 on ttyp11 from earth.universe.com. No mail. No Plan. # write noah The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. ^D EOF # write noah Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. ^D # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 # ls -l /earth ... violence, evil, corruption ... # cat /dev/ark ... two of each unclean animal, seven of each clean animal, and seven of birds and fowl, noah's family, etc... # rm -rf /earth/* # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 # write noah Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. ^D EOF # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 You have new mail. # mail Message from noah@earth: Dear God: I have done as you asked, and I have built an altar unto you, upon which I have given thee burnt offerings, and I trust thou wilst find them to be of sweet savour. Yours truly, Noah EOM # wall I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # bless noah and all his sons bless: command not found # chmod 777 /earth/noah # chmod 777 /earth/shem # chmod 777 /earth/ham # chmod 777 /earth/japheth # wall Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 Unable to allocate memory for stack Out of disk space. # df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 1921678 507612 1314738 28% / /dev/sdb1 4026924 4026924 0 100% /earth ... # du -s /earth/* | sort -n | tail -1 3920499 tower # ls -l /earth/tower -rw-r--r-- 1 men users 3094 Aug 28 0001 babel # ls -l /earth/tower/babel -rw-r--r-- 1 men users 3920499 Aug 28 0001 tower # wall Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. ^D Broadcast Message from god@universe (/dev/ttyp1) at 0:01 ... ---more--- # rm -rf /earth/tower # mkdir /earth/a # mv /earth/a* a mv: cannot move a to a. # mkdir /earth/b mv: cannot move b to b. ... and so on ... # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 # finger abraham Login: abraham Name: cain Directory: /earth/a/abraham Shell: /bin/sh On since Wed Jan 01 11:12 on ttyp4 from earth.universe.com. No mail. No Plan. # write abraham Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. ^D EOF # write abraham Unto thy seed will I give this land ^D EOF # logout universe login: god Password: ******** Welcome to Universix 7.7.7 You have new mail. # mail Message from abraham@earth: Dear God: I have done as you asked. I have also built several temples unto thee. Also I am going to Egypt with my most fine wife. Alas, since the Egyptians are perverts and scoundrels they will kill me if they know that my wife is she. Therefore I will introduce her as my sister, and thus I will spare being killed by the Pharaoh and his men. Yours truly, Abraham EOM # ps axwu | grep pharaoh pharaoh 12300 0.0 1.6 1692 1036 p2 S 13:52 0:01 -bash pharaoh 24909 0.0 0.4 908 312 p2 S 17:16 0:00 sex -partner=sarai # plague pharaoh plague: command not found # echo "logout" > /earth/pharaoh/.login # logout
