[TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article

[TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article

[Warren Toomey]

Just in from an early Unix devotee.
   Warren


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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Sent: 28 June 2014 16:14:18 AEST
To: Auug Talk <talk at lists.auug.org.au>
Subject: [AUUG-Talk]: 40 years of Unix

Next month sees the 40th anniversary of the article "The Unix Timesharing 
System" published in Communications of the ACM; I was at UNSW at the time, 
and we bought the first tape for subsequent distribution.

At the time its only competitor was RSTS-11, and to a lesser extent 
RSX-11D and RSX-11M (all DEC systems).  It saw CP/M vanish, MS-DOS come 
and go, NT tried to challenge it, and even Windows hasn't beaten it.

It spawned Linux, which Billy Gates regarded as a serious threat ("any box 
running Linux is not running Windows") and even tried a smear campaign 
against it.

Unix was a design that "just worked" because K&R simply got it right, 
right from the start.

It'll never go away.

-- Dave
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[TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article

[Warren Toomey]

Knowing Dave and his long history with Unix, I suspect it was simply a typo. Just like vi commands are now hardwired into my fingers, I guess K&R is imprinted on his fingers.
Cheers, Warren

On 28 June 2014 17:12:14 AEST, Armando Stettner <aps at ieee.org> wrote:
>K&R usually refers to Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, writers of
>the (I think) first book on C.  If there were two people to acknowledge
>for getting it right, it would be Ken and Dennis.
>
>  aps
>
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org>
>> Subject: [TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article
>> Date: June 28, 2014 at 12:02:06 AM PDT
>> To: tuhs at tuhs.org
>> 
>> Just in from an early Unix devotee.
>> Warren
>> 
>> From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
>> Sent: 28 June 2014 16:14:18 AEST
>> To: Auug Talk <talk at lists.auug.org.au>
>> Subject: [AUUG-Talk]: 40 years of Unix
>> 
>> Next month sees the 40th anniversary of the article "The Unix
>Timesharing 
>> System" published in Communications of the ACM; I was at UNSW at the
>time, 
>> and we bought the first tape for subsequent distribution.
>> 
>> At the time its only competitor was RSTS-11, and to a lesser extent 
>> RSX-11D and RSX-11M (all DEC systems).  It saw CP/M vanish, MS-DOS
>come 
>> and go, NT tried to challenge it, and even Windows hasn't beaten it.
>> 
>> It spawned Linux, which Billy Gates regarded as a serious threat
>("any box 
>> running Linux is not running Windows") and even tried a smear
>campaign 
>> against it.
>> 
>> Unix was a design that "just worked" because K&R simply got it right,
>
>> right from the start.
>> 
>> It'll never go away.
>> 
>> -- Dave
>> 
>> Applix 1616 mailing list
>> Applix-L at object-craft.com.au
>> https://www.object-craft.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/applix-l
>> 
>> Talk - The AUUG discussion list.
>> Talk at lists.auug.org.au
>> https://lists.auug.org.au/listinfo/talk
>> 
>> -- 
>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my
>brevity._______________________________________________
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