What's a script?

[Derek Broughton]

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.

I'm sure he's really _best_ known for being the Kernighan in "Kernighan and 
Ritchie" (normally used to refer to THE C text).

-- 
derek