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 g...@tu-k-ddr.cs.tu-berlin.de . Translation and redistribution is with the author's permission. The original can be had by emailing me ( p...@iis.ethz.ch ). Peter Lamb uucp: uunet!mcsun!ethz!prl eunet: p...@iis.ethz.ch Tel: +411 256 5241 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 360).…