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Peter Salus has died
- Buildstarted 6mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus
- jocelyner 6mo ago[flagged]
- Abh1Works 6mo agoRIP a goat
- drekipus 6mo ago[flagged]
- oldspleen 6mo agoDuring college, his Unix history book was the first one I read that actually made the AT&T => BSD => linux throughline make sense. RIP.
- TZubiri 6mo agoQuarter century of UNIX sounds interesting. I found at least 1 copy in the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salus_201910/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salu... The cover looks redacted, as the "Sex, Drugs" from "Sex, Drugs, Unix" was removed. Hopefully the content wasn't censored as well.
- massimosgrelli 6mo agoThanks for sharing this link. I'll read it right away. If you are passionate about Unix history, you should also get Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp/1695978552 https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d...
- Projectiboga 6mo agoanna's archive has it in a 20MB Pdf. you can find a link for that archive on the Wikipedia for the Anna's archive.
- TZubiri 6mo agoNo thank you. I recommend not downloading stuff from a website that cannot hold a Domain for longer than a year and forces you to learn what the 'real domain' is and asks you not to fall for any imposters. If not for legal reasons, then for security reasons. The Internet Archive doesn't have to evade law enforcement and doesn't ask you to put your systems at risk.
- armada1122 6mo agoHis name shows up everywhere in the Unix bibliography but I'll be honest — I've used A Quarter Century of Unix mostly as a lookup for specific stories rather than reading it cover-to-cover. For folks who read it as it came out: where would you point someone today who wants the full sweep? It's hard to tell from outside which of his books hold up as essential vs. which show their age. Tangent, but: is anyone doing comparable oral-history work for the current LLM moment? It feels like a lot of it is going to survive only as scattered blog posts and conference talks, and I don't know who's playing the role Salus did for Unix.
- YesThatTom2 6mo agoHe was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.
- farwaabbas 6mo agoRIP a legend. Thanks for preserving Unix history.
- krylon 6mo agoRest in peace, Mister Salus.
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- zvr 6mo agoRIP. I've actually found the Handbook of Programming Languages (4 volumes) that he edited much more useful than his Unix history. I met him in a few conferences, back in the day. We ended up talking more about linguistics than Unix history, somehow.
- Tepix 6mo agoWe should honor these people when they turn 80, then they get to see all the love and respect themselves!
- Tade0 6mo agoLet's make it 70 - otherwise even if the tradition started 15 years ago, Dennis Ritchie wouldn't be included.
- angry_octet 6mo agohttps://www.fsf.net/~adam/qcu.pdf https://www.fsf.net/~adam/qcu.pdf
- liberian 6mo ago[dead]