Just in from an early Unix devotee. Warren -------- Original Message -------- From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> Sent: 28 June 2014 16:14:18 AEST To: Auug Talk <talk(a)lists.auug.org.au> Subject: [AUUG-Talk]: 40 years of Unix Next month sees the 40th anniversary of the article "The Unix Timesharing System" published in Communications of the ACM; I was at UNSW at the time, and we bought the first tape for subsequent distribution. At the time its only competitor was RSTS-11, and to a lesser extent RSX-11D and RSX-11M (all DEC systems). It saw CP/M vanish, MS-DOS come and go, NT tried to challenge it, and even Windows hasn't beaten it. It spawned Linux, which Billy Gates regarded as a serious threat ("any box running Linux is not running Windows") and even tried a smear campaign against it. Unix was a design that "just worked" because K&R simply got it right, right from the start. It'll never go away. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Applix 1616 mailing list Applix-L(a)object-craft.com.au https://www.object-craft.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/applix-l _______________________________________________ Talk - The AUUG discussion list. Talk(a)lists.auug.org.au https://lists.auug.org.au/listinfo/talk -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.