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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 10:57:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgy6WJ_bUSY4hUoqtq41F1dYH_9SGLK_istBAb5Hv346EA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C63994DC-C33E-48E6-BB5B-79A36E15132C@tuhs.org>

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Very nice talk with lots of good background. It made me think of the boxes
of DECTapes we had under the Unix room floor, and what we might have lost.
(Volunteers did manage to recover a couple of them, but time was short).

PWB inaccuracy: The talk said that tools like grep and sed came from PWB,
but that's not true. They were original, as I'm sure Warner knows; he just
misspoke. Slightly more important: PWB also did not introduce the idea of
the shell (neither did Unix, for that matter), although there was a
distinct shell for that system that included the legendary pump operator,
later superseded by here documents. The flow from PWB back to the main
research line was a trickle at best. We had bad NIH in 1127.

-rob

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-07 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 22:25 Warren Toomey
2020-02-07 23:57 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2020-02-08  0:43   ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-08  3:37     ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 15:15   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 21:50     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 22:29       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 22:54         ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:02           ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:11             ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:13               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:21               ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-08 23:26                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:28                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:26               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:29                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:35                   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 23:36                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-09  0:11                       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-09  0:19                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-08 22:31       ` Richard Salz
2020-02-10 13:18       ` Tony Finch
2020-02-10 15:05       ` Dan Cross
2020-02-10 15:46         ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] arnold
2020-02-10 18:39           ` Rob Pike
2020-02-10 18:59             ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10 19:58             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-02-10 20:11               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11  9:33             ` arnold
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Noel Hunt
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11  9:59                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:05                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-11 17:18                     ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-11 18:22                     ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-16 21:34                       ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-11 18:26                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-11 23:56                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-12  0:12                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-12  1:03                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell Warren Toomey
2020-02-12  5:54                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:36                   ` Dan Cross
2020-02-11 18:35                   ` Christopher Browne
2020-02-11 18:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 21:36                     ` Harald Arnesen

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