UNIX: A History and a Memoir 1695978552, 978169597855, 9781695978553
The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original gro
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English Pages 183 [198] Year 2019
- Author / Uploaded
- Brian Kernighan
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- Computers
- Operating Systems
- Commentary
- + cover, ToC, pagination
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface
1. Bell Labs
____1.1 Physical sciences at Bell Labs
____1.2 Communications and computer science
____1.3 BWK at BTL
____1.4 Office space
____1.5 137 → 127 → 1127 → 11276
2. Proto-Unix (1969)
____2.1 A bit of technical background
____2.2 CTSS and Multics
____2.3 The origin of Unix
____2.4 What’s in a name?
____2.5 Biography: Ken Thompson
3. First Edition (1971)
____3.1 Unix for patent applications
____3.2 The Unix room
____3.3 The Unix Programmer's Manual
____3.4 A few words about memory
____3.5 Biography: Dennis Ritchie
4. Sixth Edition (1975)
____4.1 File system
____4.2 System calls
____4.3 Shell
____4.4 Pipes
____4.5 Grep
____4.6 Regular Expressions
____4.7 The C programming language
____4.8 Software Tools and Ratfor
____4.9 Biography: Doug McIlroy
5. Seventh Edition (1976-1979)
____5.1 Bourne shell
____5.2 Yacc, Lex, Make
________Yacc
________Make
____5.3 Document preparation
________Early formatters
________Troff and typesetters
________Eqn and other preprocessors
________Device-independent Troff
________Book publication
____5.4 Sed and Awk
________Sed
________Awk
____5.5 Other languages
________Scientific computing
________UUCP
________Security
________Hardware
6. Beyond Research
____6.1 Programmer's Workbench
____6.2 University licenses
____6.3 User groups and Usenix
____6.4 John Lions' Commentary
____6.5 Portability
7. Commercialization
____7.1 Divestiture
____7.2 USL and SVR4
____7.3 UNIX™
____7.4 Public relations
8. Descendants
____8.1 Berkeley Software Distribution
____8.2 Unix wars
____8.3 Minix and Linux
____8.4 Plan 9
____8.5 Diaspora
9. Legacy
____9.1 Technical
____9.2 Organization
____9.3 Recognition
____9.4 Could history repeat?
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