Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cme!libes From: libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy Message-ID: <1694@muffin.cme.nbs.gov> Date: 6 Oct 89 18:25:28 GMT References: <20226@usc.edu> <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <1858@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <14920@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 18 In article <14920@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ihaka@diamond.UUCP (Ross Ihaka) writes: >In article <7604@bunny.GTE.COM> abh0@GTE.COM (Andrew Hudson) writes: >|[Discussion of Ivy league schools using non-UNIX computers deleted] > >[Discussion of Yale as an example of such a school, and >administration not appreciating the problem - deleted] Irrelevant. Any computer scientist worth his salt should know every person who has won the Turing Award, and they should have a reasonable understanding of why. I don't care if they have never used UNIX. Seeing as how Thompson was awarded this most prestigious prize in computer science during the time this person was a "highly respected computer scientist", it is hard to understand how they wouldn't know the name and the accomplishment associated with it. This is like a physicist not being aware of a contemporary Nobel laureate in physics. Don Libes libes@cme.nist.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes