Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
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Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#2The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#3The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
also really classy to put their own copyright notice on a document "found on usenet and the author could not be determined"
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#4Come on
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#5> This piece was found on Usenet. This is fiction, not reality. Always remember that this is not true. It's really a joke, right? -- Editor
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#6"At one time, we joked about selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years."
Hilarious. Ended up selling it to everybody.
But seriously, given the long history of failures (i.e. search CVE database for buffer overflow), this joke does read like a true story.
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#7I'll always remember a backhanded remark Mary Shaw (https://www.isri.cmu.edu/people/core-faculty/shaw-mary.html) made about AT&T Bell Labs at a talk she gave about Computer Architecture as the "New Jersey School of Computation."
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#8This looks like a good place to link the Unix Hater’s Handbook[1]
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#9This looks like a good place to link the Unix Hater’s Handbook[1] [1] https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
360 pages?!
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#10The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
also really classy to put their own copyright notice on a document "found on usenet and the author could not be determined"
probably just a standard footer that wraps everything