[TUHS] Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software.

Steve Jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Wed Sep 7 14:08:40 AEST 2022


thanks!
Had read this comment & it didn’t stick :(

pg 1931 (splits over to next page)

UNIX Implementation
	<https://archive.org/download/bstj57-6-1931/bstj57-6-1931_text.pdf>

> On 7 Sep 2022, at 12:33, segaloco <segaloco at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What is or is not implemented in the kernel represents both a great responsibility and a great power.  It is a soap-box platform on "the way things should be done."
> 
> - Ken Thompson, 1977
> 
> This paper can be found in the BSTJ Vol. 57, No. 6 as well as various "Documents for UNIX" compilations such as the Version 7 manual Volume 2.
> 
> - Matt G.

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