A quarter century of UNIX

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Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 4-a de januaro 1994 de Addison-Wesley Pub. Co..

ISBN:: 978-0-201-54777-1

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UNIX is a software system that is simple, elegant, portable, and powerful. It grew in popularity without the benefit of a large marketing organization. Programmers kept using it; big companies kept fighting it. After a decade, it was clear that the users had won. A Quarter Century of UNIX is the first book to explain this incredible success, using the words of its creators, developers and users to illustrate how the sociology of a technical group can overwhelm the intent of multi-billion-dollar corporations. In preparing to write this book, Peter Salus interviewed over 100 of these key figures and gathered relevant information from Australia to Austria. This is the book that turns UNIX folklore into UNIX history. provides the first documented history of the development of the UNIX operating system, includes interviews with over 100 key figures in the UNIX community, contains classic photos and illustrations, and explains why UNIX …

UNIX is a software system that is simple, elegant, portable, and powerful. It grew in popularity without the benefit of a large marketing organization. Programmers kept using it; big companies kept fighting it. After a decade, it was clear that the users had won. A Quarter Century of UNIX is the first book to explain this incredible success, using the words of its creators, developers and users to illustrate how the sociology of a technical group can overwhelm the intent of multi-billion-dollar corporations. In preparing to write this book, Peter Salus interviewed over 100 of these key figures and gathered relevant information from Australia to Austria. This is the book that turns UNIX folklore into UNIX history. provides the first documented history of the development of the UNIX operating system, includes interviews with over 100 key figures in the UNIX community, contains classic photos and illustrations, and explains why UNIX succeeded.

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Craig Maloney recenzis A quarter century of UNIX de Peter H. Salus

A dense book detailing the history of UNIX from its inception to the mid 1990s.

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A Quarter Century of UNIX is both a history of the UNIX operating system from its humble beginnings as a Bell Laboratories project through it's rise in academic circles, and finally with its commercial breakthrough in the 1980s and 90s. At times the book was dense with details about specific events which made it a little harder to read, but the depth and breadth of the coverage of UNIX was appreciated. The book was peppered with first-hand accounts of various events in UNIX's history. In the center of the book is a set of photo plates, and at the back is a list of notable people and terminology. You couldn't ask for a better introduction to the history of UNIX. My only complaints are that there doesn't appear to be a sequel detailing the next 25 years of UNIX, but I can let that slide (or read through Brian Kernighan's …

A Quarter Century of UNIX is both a history of the UNIX operating system from its humble beginnings as a Bell Laboratories project through it's rise in academic circles, and finally with its commercial breakthrough in the 1980s and 90s. At times the book was dense with details about specific events which made it a little harder to read, but the depth and breadth of the coverage of UNIX was appreciated. The book was peppered with first-hand accounts of various events in UNIX's history. In the center of the book is a set of photo plates, and at the back is a list of notable people and terminology. You couldn't ask for a better introduction to the history of UNIX. My only complaints are that there doesn't appear to be a sequel detailing the next 25 years of UNIX, but I can let that slide (or read through Brian Kernighan's accounting and memoir). What struck me the most were the parallels of the original UNIX community and the community I was a part of in the 1990s with the rise of Linux.

Highly recommended for anyone who is a fan of UNIX and wants to learn more about its history and the folks involved with its creation and propagation. Also recommended for anyone who wants to learn more about the early UNIX communities and how they worked together to make something greater than themselves..

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