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Unix wasn’t academic. It was pragmatic from the start. A first-hand account: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o
by enneff 7y ago
Unix wasn’t academic. It was pragmatic from the start. A first-hand account: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o
- kazinator 7y agoAlso, Bell Labs wasn't a university, and Thompson and Ritchie were not tenured lecturers. They wrote assembly code, not papers.
- kragen 7y agoThey wrote papers too (Bell Labs was, after all, a research lab), took sabbaticals, and lectured at universities. I think one of the group (Kernighan?) took a sabbatical at Berkeley that was one of the events that gave rise to BSD?
- pjmlp 7y agoUNIX was academic, because Bell Labs were forbidden to make profit out of it and thus licensed it via a symbolic price to universities alongside source code tapes. Had Bell Labs been allowed to sell it, and history would have turned a very different path concerning UNIX clones and its adoption.