[9fans] Unix's founding fathers

[9fans] Unix's founding fathers

[Skip Tavakkolian]

I thought it might be nice to have something worth reading
amongst all the spam today.

http://economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724348

Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers

[Boris Maryshev]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:03, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> I thought it might be nice to have something worth reading
> amongst all the spam today.
>
> http://economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724348
Nice indeed.

As Boyd pointed out, “Space Travel” should be “Space War”.

And hey, how come other lists are dealing with spam much better?

Boris
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And one says "This is new, and therefore better."
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Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers

[Rob Pike]

no, the article is correct. it was 'space travel'.

-rob

Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers

[Boris Maryshev]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:22, Rob Pike wrote:
> no, the article is correct. it was 'space travel'.
I see.

"Later we fixed Space Travel so it would run under (PDP-7) Unix instead of
standalone, and did also a very faithful copy of the Spacewar game originally
done (I think) at MIT on the PDP-1, but that was a different game."

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/spacetravel.html

But then there are quite a few articles on the Internet, which say that Unix
is here thanks to Ken wanting to play Space War on Programmed Data
Processor-7.
>
> -rob
Boris
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Re: [9fans] Unix's founding fathers

[andrey mirtchovski]

> I thought it might be nice to have something worth reading
> amongst all the spam today.
>
> http://economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724348

did you find the code snippets in the dmr collage a tad strange:

	http://economist.com/images/20040612/UNIX.jpg

?

i'll tell you where they are from (google's working now):

	http://www.aljex.com/bkw/filepro/

(the topmost entry, check the screenshots) but i can't tell you why
they were used instead of some trivial C code...  filePro for SCO
UNIX?  wtf indeed!

andrey