[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix

[Ed Carp]

> I looked, and it too says next to nothing about Unix (which it describes as a
> "programming language" - pg. 346). Oh well.

Pretty funny, or sad, depending on your viewpoint!

> This is really a pretty serious omission, given that the vast majority of
> mobile devices now run Android, which is a Unix derivative (Linux). So just
> about everyone has a Unix-derived thing in their pocket.

To hear some people talk, everything started with Linux, and Torvalds
is a god. Nonsense.

Even iOS and MacOS are derived from BSD, I believe. I know that MacOS
is (or has been until relatively recently, at any rate) derived from
BSD.

On 1/5/19, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>    >> From: Doug McIlroy
>
>     >> I have heard also that Isaacson's "Idea Factory" (about Bell Labs)
>
>     > Did you mean the work of this title by Jon Gertner? (I have yet to
> pull
>     > down my copy to see what it says about Unix
>
> I looked, and it too says next to nothing about Unix (which it describes as
> a
> "programming language" - pg. 346). Oh well.
>
> This is really a pretty serious omission, given that the vast majority of
> mobile devices now run Android, which is a Unix derivative (Linux). So just
> about everyone has a Unix-derived thing in their pocket.
>
>       Noel
>