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In "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System" by Dennis Ritchie, he writes: > Although it was not until well into 1970 that Brian Kernighan suggested the
by holmak 2y ago
In "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System" by Dennis Ritchie, he writes:
> Although it was not until well into 1970 that Brian Kernighan suggested the name ‘Unix,’ in a somewhat treacherous pun on ‘Multics,’ the operating system we know today was born.
I like this paper for its thorough description of the very earliest versions of the operating system.
- heresie-dabord 2y ago> in a somewhat treacherous pun on ‘Multics’ It is both fascinating and amusing to note that significant innovation came from talented peoples' frustration with software-development complexity, bureaucracy, and paralysis. Are we any better, half a century later?