From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:02:06 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Just in from an early Unix devotee. Warren -------- Original Message -------- 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: