Milestones in the Development of Solaris
| 1965 | Bell Laboratories joins with MIT and General Electric to develop Multics. |
| 1970 | Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie develop UNIX. |
| 1971 | The B-language version of the operating system runs on a PDP-11. |
| 1973 | UNIX is rewritten in the C language. |
| 1974 | Thompson and Ritchie publish a paper and generate enthusiasm in the academic community. Berkeley starts the BSD program. |
| 1975 | The first licensed version of BSD UNIX is released. |
| 1979 | Bill Joy introduces “Berkeley enhancements” as BSD 4.1. |
| 1982 | AT&T first markets UNIX. Sun Microsystems is founded by Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy with $4 million in venture capital. |
| 1983 | Sun Microsystems introduces SunOS. |
| 1984 | About 100,000 UNIX sites exist ... |
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