From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:29:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090605182924.GC31649@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A9E1F085-A9BE-43B9-94F8-9D9784F8F429@killthewabbit.org>
Ian King scripsit:
> Not a very *good* article, either, IMHO. One gets the impression the
> author of the piece was given two or three pieces of data and
> instructed to write a historical drama around them.
A bit more than that: the author credits Salus as his main source,
so if you want more detail, you know where to get it. Remember the
target audience.
> I also suspect he's never seen a PDP-7, either.
Few of us have, and even fewer have seen one running Unix, I dare say.
For that matter, I never saw a PDP-11 running Unix, though I certainly
heard plenty about it: my first Unix-in-anger was MS Xenix System III on
a PC/AT with a 10 Mb hard drive.
> It was unnecessary to slam the PDP-7 to make
> the point that Unix was created on a computer of modest resources.
"Wimpy" is a disrespectful word, undoubtedly.
> In other words, this read like any other popularized account - which
> would be expected, if it had been published in Ladies Home Journal.
Is it actually necessary to slam _Ladies' Home Journal_ to make the point
that _Computerworld_ is a popularizing magazine? Have you ever read even
a single issue of LHJ? I have read many of them, though admittedly not
since the 1970s.
--
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that there is no scientific explanation. The unexplained is not to be
identified with the unexplainable, and the strange and extraordinary
nature of a fact is not a justification for attributing it to powers
above nature. --The Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. "telepathy" (1913)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-05 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 3:48 Brian S Walden
2009-06-05 4:18 ` Larry McVoy
2009-06-05 11:42 ` Jim Capp
2009-06-05 14:40 ` John Cowan
2009-06-05 16:06 ` Ian King
2009-06-05 18:29 ` John Cowan [this message]
2009-06-06 5:20 ` Ian King
2009-06-05 18:40 ` Jason Stevens
2009-06-05 23:30 ` [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? Warren Toomey
2009-06-05 23:39 ` John Cowan
2009-06-06 0:17 ` Larry McVoy
2009-07-05 9:25 ` [TUHS] www.tuhs.org now a MediaWiki Warren Toomey
2009-07-05 17:28 ` Jim Capp
2009-06-05 23:50 ` [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? Al Kossow
2009-06-06 1:29 ` Jim Capp
2009-06-06 3:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2009-06-06 4:11 ` John Cowan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-21 20:39 [TUHS] UNIX turns forty Brian S Walden
2009-05-19 4:42 Aharon Robbins
2009-05-19 6:13 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-19 15:12 ` M. Warner Losh
2009-05-19 15:28 ` Michael Kerpan
2009-05-19 15:21 ` John Cowan
2009-05-15 16:48 Tim Newsham
2009-05-15 17:27 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-15 18:09 ` Al Kossow
2009-05-19 2:20 ` Rafael R Obelheiro
2009-05-19 21:31 ` Warren Toomey
2009-05-19 21:49 ` John Cowan
2009-05-20 0:43 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-20 4:56 ` Derek Peschel
2009-05-20 5:16 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-20 8:21 ` Tim Bradshaw
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