11 Nov
2017
11 Nov
'17
12:19 a.m.
Hi Will,
(I found the article, not the book, "The Unix
Programming Environment"
by Kernighan and Mashey, to be enlightening
The book is better. I learnt Unix from it having read K&R to learn C
and being intrigued by these sample commands that were presented.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/013937681X/trofforg-20
I used to rent time on a 3B2 in a neighbouring town a train-ride away
and go there on a Saturday to actually type in what the book presented.
That stopped when I traded in my ARM-based Acorn Archimedes 310 for
Acorn's R140 running BSD 4.2-based Risc iX; like Tony Finch mentioned
the other day IIRC. ARM 3, 4 MiB RAM, and a 56 MB Rodime ST-506 drive
that housed everything including X and iXi.Desktop(sp?). Everything on
disk was compressed to fit; luckily the ARM could decompress quicker
than the rust could spin.
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Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy