From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 00:00:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4df24a75-636c-9c2d-337c-6434a5333e67@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190106043556.F2DFD156E410@mail.bitblocks.com>
On 2019-01-05 11:35 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> "Innovators" won general critical praise. A couple of reviews predicted
>> it would become the standard of the field. However, an evidently
>> knowledgeable review in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing faulted
>> it for peddling familiar potted legends without really digging for
>> deeper insight. Regarding Thompson and Ritchie, it looks more like
>> overt suppression.
>
> Why not ask @WalterIsaacson on twitter. He was chairman & CEO
> of CNN and managing editor of Time among other things so
> presumably he is/was interested in facts.
>
Dry wit indeed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-06 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2019-01-06 2:40 ` [TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-01-06 6:01 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-06 6:03 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 6:26 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 7:50 ` [TUHS] Emacs Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-06 14:23 ` Andrew Luke Nesbit
2019-01-06 14:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-05 9:08 ` [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix 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 [this message]
2019-01-05 4:20 Noel Chiappa
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 21:34 Doug McIlroy
[not found] <mailman.2.1546724053.30035.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-01-06 3:45 ` Paul McJones
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