[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix

Bakul Shah bakul at bitblocks.com
Sun Jan 6 14:52:34 AEST 2019


On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:35:49 -0800 Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
Bakul Shah writes:
> > "Innovators" won general critical praise. A couple of reviews predicted
> > it would become the standard of the field. However, an evidently
> > knowledgeable review in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing faulted
> > it for peddling familiar potted legends without really digging for
> > deeper insight. Regarding Thompson and Ritchie, it looks more like
> > overt suppression.
>
> Why not ask @WalterIsaacson on twitter. He was chairman & CEO
> of CNN and managing editor of Time among other things so
> presumably he is/was interested in facts.

And a professor of history at Tulane. I am sure he is interested
in getting the history right, right?!


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