From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkb@xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:32:13 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Ideas for a Unix paper I'm writing In-Reply-To: <20110628001140.GA23711@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20110628001140.GA23711@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20110628073213.GA1771@freebie.xs4all.nl> Quoting Warren Toomey, who wrote on Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:11:40AM +1000 .. > All, IEEE Spectrum have asked me to write a paper on Unix to celebrate the > 40th anniversary of the release of 1st Edition in November 1971. I'm after > ideas & suggestions! ... > Anyway, if you can think of good ideas/references about the elegance of > Unix, especially from the design perspective, I would much appreciate them. How about touching upon the fact that UNIX (& derivatives) have run & still run on next to everything from a Cray or NEC SX super to a lowly SOHO AP/router or a smartphone? Wilko