Economists' articles on the articles, tell the origins of UNIX. A lot of interesting statements said. SlashDot discussions here. Then the atmosphere is quite attractive: "it was a remarkable collection of really outstanding people who were pretty well paid to do whatever they wanted, and most of them had really good taste about what to work on." Dr McIlroy later wrote that " so many good things were happening that nobody needed to be proprietary about innovations. "Unix was not even given a name for more than a year after it was first invented. So much of what they did was done, initially, for themselves alone, sometimes For Sheer Amusement, And Yet It Has Had a lastsing legacy in the world outside .. . . Dr Pike says that the thing he misses most from the 1970s at Bell Labs was the terminal room. Because computers were rare at the time, people did not have them on their desks, but rather went to the room, one side of which was covered .........................
The last paragraph is quite wonderful summary: It is that interplay between the technical and the social that gives both C and Unix their legendary status Programmers love them because they are powerful, and they are powerful because programmers love them David Gelernter, a computer.. scientist at Yale, perhaps put it best when he said, "Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity." Dr Ritchie's creations are indeed beautiful examples of that most modern OF Art Forms.
Moving is always the passion of big cows. . .
