28 Jun
2014
28 Jun
'14
7:28 a.m.
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(a)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
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From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article
Date: June 28, 2014 at 12:02:06 AM PDT
To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org
Just in from an early Unix devotee.
Warren
From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
Sent: 28 June 2014 16:14:18 AEST
To: Auug Talk <talk(a)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.
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