References

  1. See Douglas Comer, “Pervasive Unix: Cause for Celebration,” Unix Review, October, 1985, p. 42.
  2. from Dennis Ritchie, “The Development of the C Language,” ACM, presented at Second History of Programming Languages conference, Cambridge, Mass, April 1993, p. 1.
  3. Ritchie, p. 1-2.
  4. Ibid., pg 2.
  5. Ibid.
  6. from M.D. McIlroy, E.N.Pinson, and B.A. Tague “Unix Time-Sharing System Forward”, The Bell System Technical Journal, July -Aug 1978, vol 57, number 6 part 2, p. 1902.
  7. Ritchie, p. 5.
  8. Ibid.
  9. Ibid., p. 9.
  10. M.D. McIlroy, “Unix on My Mind,” Proc. Virginia Computer Users Conference, vol 21, Sept. 1991, Blacksburg, p. 1-6.
  11. Thompson, “Unix Implementation”, “The Bell System Technical Journal,” vol 57, No. 6, July-August 1978, p. 1931.
  12. Ibid., p. 1931-2.
  13. Ibid., p. 1945-6.
  14. “Interview with Berkley Tague,” Unix Review, June 1985, p. 59. (See also “Sorry Wrong Number”, by Alan Stone, N.Y. 1989, p. 155-156 describing the service crisis experienced by AT&T during this period and how Unix helped to solve the problem.)
  15. See reference in Unix™ Time-Sharing System: Unix Programmers Manual, 7th edition, vol 2, Murray Hill, f/n pg 20). See also Ritchie's account of the creation of C by early 1973 in “The Development of the C Language,” ACM, presented at Second History of Programming Languages conference, Cambridge, Mass, April 1993, p. 1.
  16. Mohr, “The Genesis Story”, Unix Review, January 1985, p. 26.
  17. See for example McKusick, “A Berkeley Odyssey” in Unix Review, January 1985, p. 31, and Peter Ivanov, “Interview with John Lions”, Unix Review, October, 1985, p. 51.
  18. See “An Interview with John Lions,” in Unix Review, October, 1985, p. 51.
  19. from John Stoneback, “The Collegiate Community,” Unix Review, October 1985, p. 27.)
  20. Lions, p.
  21. Lions, p. 52-3
  22. Ibid., p. 53.
  23. Comer, p. 44.
  24. Comer, p. 43.
  25. Comer, p. 34, 42.
  26. Lions, p. 57.