Re: History of Unix

From: Tim Heaney (theaney_at_cablespeed.com)
Date: 11/16/03 

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:02:44 -0500

"don" <don@panix.com> writes:

> I am doing a report on Unix... my teacher wants me to write about the
> history of Unix, why it is used today, what machines it works well on, what
> machines it does not work well on, what type of applications is Unix good
> for, inotherwords my report has to be on why we use Unix today and how it
> differs from all the other operating systems out there... what makes this
> report difficult is that when I go to the library all I find are books on
> Unix commands.... which is not really what this report has to be on....
> could someone please recommend a good book which would answer these
> questions.... my teacher is expecting 12 to 15 pages on this.... so lets
> get going on this please :-) thanks for any book suggestions you may
> have....

Eric S. Raymond's recent book _The Art of Unix Programming_ has a
section on history...and it's available online!

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

I hope this helps,

Tim

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