Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by fjarlq » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 11:10 AM UTC

Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
amazon.com

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by naikrovek » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 5:14 PM UTC

Amazon is returning a 404 on this item for me, when this post is 6 hours old. Googling for the book and following amazon.com links gives similar 404 errors.

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by kbd » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #2

Amazon is returning a 404 on this item for me, when this post is 6 hours old. Googling for the book and following amazon.com links gives similar 404 errors.

Weird, URL is https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695978552 which loads for me.

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by taborj » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #2

Amazon is returning a 404 on this item for me, when this post is 6 hours old. Googling for the book and following amazon.com links gives similar 404 errors.

Interesting, it opened the Amazon page for me without issue...

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by chrstphrknwtn » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 5:27 PM UTC

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by a3n » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 5:34 PM UTC

chrstphrknwtn wrote: post #5

Copyright 2020. Spooky.

$su date 010112012020

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by maxlybbert » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

chrstphrknwtn wrote: post #5

Copyright 2020. Spooky.

When I was a teenager, I bought a book from a bookstore that had a copyright date or printing date a month in the future. I was surprised that the date included the month, and realized the page has been laid out weeks in advance. But even so, it felt weird to own that book for that first month.

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by flowerlad » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

Zero mentions of Solaris. Surprising. BSD, Minix and Linux are mentioned. Even Santa Cruz Operation is mentioned. Bill Joy and Sun Microsystems are mentioned. Solaris was the most influential Unix of the 90’s so its omission is curious.

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by jasoneckert » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

I ordered a copy just now, but was somewhat disappointed that it didn't ship in tape format.

Re: Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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Post by pjmorris » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 6:17 PM UTC

Rummaging around the local mall bookstore in ~1982, I came upon 'Software Tools in Pascal', by Kernighan and Plaugher. I fell in love with the ideas, and the prose. It became the first of what is now a nearly complete collection of everything Kernighan has published (I don't have the AMPL book, or 'D for Digital'.) I can't calculate how much I know because of Dr. Kernighan, or how much my career's course has been altered by the levers he's given me, but it's a large number.

This is now on my Amazon wish list (How many of you have private lists for 'things to remember and check out later?' Mine's called 'Random Followup Stuff')