Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!husc6!bunny!abh0 From: abh0@GTE.COM (Andrew Hudson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy Message-ID: <7604@bunny.GTE.COM> Date: 5 Oct 89 19:44:06 GMT References: <20226@usc.edu> <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <1858@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <17090@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Oct2.205642.5715@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1662@muffin.cme.nbs.go Reply-To: abh0@bunny.UUCP (Andrew Hudson) Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA Lines: 34 In article <4027@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > > What has this world come to? We recently hired a new programmer, >fresh out of a highly respected computer science at a highly respected ivy ^^^ >league school. Burrowing through the mess on my desk, I discovered an ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >announcment of a talk Ken Thompson gave last week at a local Unix user's >group meeting. "Hey Brent, you want to go see Ken Thompson last week?" >"Who?" "Ken Thompson." "Who's that?" "You never heard of Ken Thompson!?" >"No, who is he?" > > Either they don't teach kids anything in school any more or I'm >older than I thought. >Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute Until the last year or two the Ivy schools have been predominantly Non-UNIX oriented. Schools with lots of money to spend traditionally spent it on big hardware (read IBM/Honeywell/Cyber/Univac/Pr1me) whereas spendthrifty schools purchased PDP's and VAXen. Only recently with the invention of the workstation have large scale purchases of UNIX boxes become prevalent. And even so a lot of Computer Centers have opted for Macintosh and PC clusters in lieu of UNIX workstations. But then maybe your programmer concentrated in Mathematics instead of Systems Programming. Consider this a gross characterization. - Andrew Hudson abh0@gte.com -- "I remember, darkness doubled, I recall, lightning struck itself."