UNIX history made easy

[Andrew Hudson]

In article <4027 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	What has this world come to?  We recently hired a new programmer,
>fresh out of a highly respected computer science at a highly respected ivy
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>league school.  Burrowing through the mess on my desk, I discovered an
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>announcment of a talk Ken Thompson gave last week at a local Unix user's
>group meeting.  "Hey Brent, you want to go see Ken Thompson last week?"
>"Who?"  "Ken Thompson."  "Who's that?"  "You never heard of Ken Thompson!?"
>"No, who is he?"
>
>	Either they don't teach kids anything in school any more or I'm
>older than I thought.
>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute

Until the last year or two the Ivy schools have been predominantly
Non-UNIX oriented. Schools with lots of money to spend traditionally
spent it on big hardware (read IBM/Honeywell/Cyber/Univac/Pr1me) whereas
spendthrifty schools purchased PDP's and VAXen. Only recently
with the invention of the workstation have large scale purchases
of UNIX boxes become prevalent.  And even so a lot of Computer Centers
have opted for Macintosh and PC clusters in lieu of UNIX workstations.

But then maybe your programmer concentrated in Mathematics instead of 
Systems Programming.

Consider this a gross characterization.
- Andrew Hudson
abh0 at gte.com

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