[TUHS] Honor declined

Brantley Coile brantley at coraid.com
Thu Mar 7 04:33:22 AEST 2024


Here here. 

bwc

> On Mar 6, 2024, at 11:54 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
> 
>> Although I jumped into Unix as soon as it was born, I was not one of
>> those who "start[ed] to develop it".
> 
> http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/
> 
> Dennis wrote that "UNIX is a very conservative system. Only a handful of its
> ideas are genuinely new." (And quite right he was, too!) Among the ones that
> are new, pipes, although less important now than they used to be, were a major
> part of the constellation of things that drove its adoption, early on. And I
> can't see how pushing pipes was not "developing UNIX"! I'm afraid you'll just
> have to live with it! :-)
> 
>    Noel
> 


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