[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

John Levine johnl at taugh.com
Thu Jul 11 00:29:32 AEST 2024


According to Chet Ramey via TUHS <chet.ramey at case.edu>:
>On 7/9/24 6:54 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>> 
>>> I think these were called "Eclipse", and the story of their
>>> development is told in the famous book "The Soul of a New Machine".
>>> For you youngsters out there, it's a great read.
>> 
>> A superb book; highly recommended.
>
>All of Kidder's books are good. I particularly enjoyed "House".

His first book, The Road to Yuba City, was not so good. He bought back
the rights and has made it quite difficult to find copies.  It's in
the Internet Archive if anyone cares.

I agree that the rest of his books are good.



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