Colin Gordon
Tom Lyon ✅Fresh scan: "The UNIX System - a Sun Microsystems Technical Report" (1985)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dW6l6cFAiqTKj3bmTulynKQuOHeHMx0u/view?usp=sharing
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)@aka_pugs
Bill Courington. Hmm.
Bill Courington. Hmm.
@aka_pugs
Ah, pulling no punches, unlike most histories:
> The name “UNIX” is not an acronym but a play on the phrase “castrated MULTICS,”
amen zwa, esq.I loved reading those computer manuals from the 1970s and the 1980s. The industry used to care about well written manuals. My favourites of that period were by DEC, SUN, and SGI. Apple’s System 6 manuals were very good too. These days, IT folk don’t know how to write with the LLM. Sad….
Lori Olson@aka_pugs I remember reading this at the time. I was a computer science student in Calgary, and my boyfriend worked for Sun.