[OT] Old Unix tales :) [was: What's a script?]

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 19:21 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Joep L. Blom wrote:
> [cut]
> 
> > 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 The best historical document for UNIX is the AT&T Bell Laboratories 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. :-)

I understand that, before I lost all my library in a fire in '97, I owned
an even earlier one. In a previous post I mentioned an famous article in
Bell Labs Tech Journal from '70 that I owned - memory didn't serve well.
A little research led me to this historically interesting link:

  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html

It mentions historical versions of the article, now I think I owned
CACM, 17, No. 7 (July 1974).

I'm writing this on a SGI Indy R5k I'm currently reactivating to run
Debian testing, cf .signature.

That's a fine rugged piece of engineering in contrast to to the crap
they sell nowadays, it's a pity it's so slooooow, no gnome then, just
icewm.

cu
  Siggy
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