Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix - TUHS

5 Jan 2019

    From: Doug McIlroy

...
  I have heard also that Isaacson's "Idea
Factory" (about Bell Labs) 
I was unable to find a book of this title by Isaacson? 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 - it's in another room, and I'm lazy... :-)

...
  (In my recollection, McCarthy proseletized; Corbato
led.) 
I think that's an accurate 1-sentence summary.

...
  breathes not a word about Berkeley's work,
without which ARPANET would
 have been an open circuit. 
Can you elaborate on this point a bit - I'm not sure what it is you're
referring to?

...
  A couple of reviews predicted it would become the
standard of the
 field. 
Among people who spell 'Internet' with a lower-case 'i', perhaps it
will
(sadly).

      Noel