[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Sun Jan 6 15:00:02 AEST 2019


On 2019-01-05 11:35 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> "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.
> 

Dry wit indeed.


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