5 Jan
2019
5 Jan
'19
4:04 p.m.
I looked, and it too says next to nothing about Unix
(which it describes as a
"programming language" - pg. 346). Oh well.
Pretty funny, or sad, depending on your viewpoint!
This is really a pretty serious omission, given that
the vast majority of
mobile devices now run Android, which is a Unix derivative (Linux). So just
about everyone has a Unix-derived thing in their pocket.
To hear some people talk, everything started with Linux, and Torvalds
is a god. Nonsense.
Even iOS and MacOS are derived from BSD, I believe. I know that MacOS
is (or has been until relatively recently, at any rate) derived from
BSD.
On 1/5/19, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> >> From: Doug McIlroy
>
> >> I have heard also that Isaacson's "Idea Factory" (about
Bell Labs)
>
> > Did you mean the work of this title by Jon Gertner? (I have yet to
> pull
> > down my copy to see what it says about Unix
>
> I looked, and it too says next to nothing about Unix (which it describes as
> a
> "programming language" - pg. 346). Oh well.
>
This is really a pretty serious omission, given that
the vast majority of
mobile devices now run Android, which is a Unix derivative (Linux). So just
about everyone has a Unix-derived thing in their pocket.
>
> Noel
>