What's a script?

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
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> We used our first Unix in 1979 acquiring 9 tapes from Bell labs and 
> installed in on a PDP-11. It was developed as Kernigan & Richie were
>  fed-up with the slow multitasking in the current DEC OS (I thought
> it was RSTS but I am not sure). Talking about old gees in
> computerland.... Joep
> 

Not exactly. UNIX was designed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and 
others, starting in 1969 after AT&T withdrew from the Multics project. 
Brian Kernighan joined AT&T around this time and is probably best known 
for being the 'K' in awk.

The best historical document for UNIX is the AT&T Bell Laboratories 
Technical Journal of October 1984 (Vol.63 No.8 Part 2). No, my copy is 
not for sale at any price. :-)

Peter HB