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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Teaching UNIX
Message-ID: <625@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 10:39:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 10:39:23 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 07:15:50 EST
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Knowing about Un*x and learning Un*x are two different things.  I strongly
believe that Un*x is, and will remain, an influential operating system
in its design concepts.  Any program which does not do even a casual study
of it in an operating systems course is suspect.  However, sitting down
and actually using Un*x is not required, or even desired, in some cases.
Also, the operating systems course should cover OS/360 and its successors,
if only to learn how things should not be done.  Sitting down at a terminal
and being able to write and run a program in C is a poor criteria for the
worth of a computer science program.  

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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