Re: [TUHS] A Paper by dmr in 1984

[Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>]

I hate the paywalls as well.  Personally, if I've written something and
someone wants it, I just give it to them.  Most decent authors I've 
encountered do the same.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Edouard Klein wrote:
> PDFS:
> https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s12045-012-0084-x
> https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s12045-012-0085-9
> 
> Paywalls where the money goes to people who did nothing of significance to
> advance the published works are the bane of scientific research. Sci hub
> is a useful crutch until we fix this mess. If you want to follow the
> letter of the law, don't follow these links.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Edouard.
> 
> Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
> 
> > Dennis Ritchie's ACM Turing Award lecture paper in Communications of
> > the ACM 27(8) 758--760 (August 1984), doi:10.1145/358198.358207 was
> > reprinted in UNIX Review 3(1) 28, 118--120, 122, (January 1985) [no
> > DOI or URL yet found], and more recently, in Resonance 17(8) 810--816
> > (August 2012) doi:10.1007/s12045-012-0091-y.
> >
> > There are two other UNIX-related papers in that issue of Resonance:
> >
> > 	Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt 
> > 	UNIX: Genesis and design features
> > 	Resonance 17(8) 727--747 (August 2012)
> > 	doi:10.1007/s12045-012-0084-x
> >
> > 	K. Bhaskar
> > 	C --- Past, present, and future --- A perspective
> > 	Resonance 17(8) 748--758 (August 2012)
> > 	doi:10.1007/s12045-012-0085-9
> >
> > I do not have access to that journal's archives from my campus
> > library, so I have not seen the articles.
> >
> > In his paper, Dennis Ritchie referred to another UNIX article that I
> > did manage to track down and record in unix.bib:
> >
> > 	Donald Arthur Norman
> > 	The Truth about UNIX
> > 	Datamation 27(12) 139--150 (November 1981)
> > 	https://tinyurl.com/yyselmxq
> >
> > The original URL is 200+ characters long, and is a freely-downloadable
> > PDF of a reprint in AUUGN volume IV number I.  The PDF file has
> > searchable text.
> >
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