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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

by fjarlq on 10/21/19, 11:10 AM with 22 comments

• by flowerlad on 10/21/19, 6:16 PM

  Zero mentions of Solaris. Surprising. BSD, Minix and Linux are mentioned. Even Santa Cruz Operation is mentioned. Bill Joy and Sun Microsystems are mentioned. Solaris was the most influential Unix of the 90’s so its omission is curious.

• by pmoriarty on 10/21/19, 6:33 PM

  I wish I could see memoirs like this from Ken Thompson and Rob Pike.

• by pjmorris on 10/21/19, 6:17 PM

  Rummaging around the local mall bookstore in ~1982, I came upon 'Software Tools in Pascal', by Kernighan and Plaugher. I fell in love with the ideas, and the prose. It became the first of what is now a nearly complete collection of everything Kernighan has published (I don't have the AMPL book, or 'D for Digital'.) I can't calculate how much I know because of Dr. Kernighan, or how much my career's course has been altered by the levers he's given me, but it's a large number.

  This is now on my Amazon wish list (How many of you have private lists for 'things to remember and check out later?' Mine's called 'Random Followup Stuff')

• by naikrovek on 10/21/19, 5:14 PM

  Amazon is returning a 404 on this item for me, when this post is 6 hours old. Googling for the book and following amazon.com links gives similar 404 errors.

• by jasoneckert on 10/21/19, 6:16 PM

  I ordered a copy just now, but was somewhat disappointed that it didn't ship in tape format.

• by chrstphrknwtn on 10/21/19, 5:27 PM

  Copyright 2020. Spooky.