John J. Donohue wrote:
>
> > Does anyone offhand know a good doc. that describes the history of UNIX
> > and/or Linux in a brief, but positive way? (I'm looking for exact dates,
> > important people, that sorta thing...)
> >
> For UNIX, go to your local library, and have them get for you (thru
> inter-library loan, if necessary) a copy of
> Life With Unix: A Guide For Everyone by Don Libes
> c. 1989 Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs NJ
> LCCN 88-025275 ISBN 0135366577
>
All the docs I have seen clean the history up from what I remember it
as. Unix was made to play games, tripped accidentally into development,
taught OS theory and then went commercial in 1977 with Interactive.
Since then demons have become daemons and the historical cleansing has
begun.
Paul Anderson
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