On 28 June 2014 17:12:14 AEST, Armando Stettner <aps@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@tuhs.org>
 Subject: [TUHS] 40 years of Unix CACM Article
 Date: June 28, 2014 at 12:02:06 AM PDT
 To: tuhs@tuhs.org
 
 Just in from an early Unix devotee.
 Warren
 
 From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
 Sent: 28 June 2014 16:14:18 AEST
 To: Auug Talk <talk@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.
 
 -- Dave
 
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