[TUHS] Ideas for a Unix paper I'm writing

Wilko Bulte wkb at xs4all.nl
Tue Jun 28 17:32:13 AEST 2011


Quoting Warren Toomey, who wrote on Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:11:40AM +1000 ..
> All, IEEE Spectrum have asked me to write a paper on Unix to celebrate the
> 40th anniversary of the release of 1st Edition in November 1971. I'm after
> ideas & suggestions!

...

> Anyway, if you can think of good ideas/references about the elegance of
> Unix, especially from the design perspective, I would much appreciate them.

How about touching upon the fact that UNIX (& derivatives) have run & still
run on next to everything from a Cray or NEC SX super to a lowly SOHO
AP/router or a smartphone?

Wilko



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