From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 23:20:11 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190105042011.49D7118C0B2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
From: Doug McIlroy
> I have heard also that Isaacson's "Idea Factory" (about Bell Labs)
I was unable to find a book of this title by Isaacson? Did you mean the work
of this title by Jon Gertner? (I have yet to pull down my copy to see what it
says about Unix - it's in another room, and I'm lazy... :-)
> (In my recollection, McCarthy proseletized; Corbato led.)
I think that's an accurate 1-sentence summary.
> breathes not a word about Berkeley's work, without which ARPANET would
> have been an open circuit.
Can you elaborate on this point a bit - I'm not sure what it is you're
referring to?
> A couple of reviews predicted it would become the standard of the
> field.
Among people who spell 'Internet' with a lower-case 'i', perhaps it will
(sadly).
Noel
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2019-01-05 4:20 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2019-01-06 3:45 ` Paul McJones
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2019-01-05 21:34 Doug McIlroy
2019-01-05 14:30 Noel Chiappa
2019-01-05 15:04 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-05 15:26 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-05 15:37 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2019-01-05 2:26 Doug McIlroy
2019-01-05 2:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-01-05 15:31 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-05 17:01 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 20:27 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 21:38 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 21:51 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:53 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 1:50 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 2:18 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 17:07 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-05 21:20 ` joe mcguckin
2019-01-06 1:43 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-05 9:08 ` William Corcoran
2019-01-05 12:09 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-05 14:15 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 15:01 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-06 4:35 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 4:52 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 5:00 ` Toby Thain
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