From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:28:11 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article In-Reply-To: <60AED4C0-D500-4666-823C-F61D929BA7B0@ieee.org> References: <60AED4C0-D500-4666-823C-F61D929BA7B0@ieee.org> Message-ID: <20944a6d-6edc-480e-8563-730e5b243cc4@email.android.com> 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 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 >> 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 >> Sent: 28 June 2014 16:14:18 AEST >> To: Auug Talk >> 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._______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: