Re: [TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article - TUHS

28 Jun 2014

Knowing Dave and his long history with Unix, I suspect it was simply a typo. Just like vi
commands are now hardwired into my fingers, I guess K&R is imprinted on his fingers.
Cheers, Warren

On 28 June 2014 17:12:14 AEST, Armando Stettner &lt;aps(a)ieee.org&gt; wrote:
...
 K&R usually refers to Brian Kernighan and Dennis
Ritchie, writers of
the (I think) first book on C.  If there were two people to acknowledge
for getting it right, it would be Ken and Dennis.

  aps

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  From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)tuhs.org&gt;
 Subject: [TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article
 Date: June 28, 2014 at 12:02:06 AM PDT
 To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org

 Just in from an early Unix devotee.
 Warren

 From: Dave Horsfall &lt;dave(a)horsfall.org&gt;
 Sent: 28 June 2014 16:14:18 AEST
 To: Auug Talk &lt;talk(a)lists.auug.org.au&gt;
 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

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