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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by kickingvegas on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:17PM (#24237977)
I'll always remember a backhanded remark Mary Shaw (https://www.isri.cmu.edu/people/core-faculty/shaw-mary.html) made about AT&T Bell Labs at a talk she gave about Computer Architecture as the "New Jersey School of Computation."
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by User23 on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:26PM (#24238054)
This looks like a good place to link the Unix Hater’s Handbook[1]

[1] https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by djsumdog on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:30PM (#24238098)
360 pages?!
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by gowld on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:50PM (#24238756)
It's Volume 1.
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by variaga on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:54PM (#24237774)
The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by aaron695 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @10:05AM (#24244224)
1991

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.79.html

Not sure if it was joking about being from computerworld?

It's not in this edition -

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sXM8jj29gfIC

Conspiracy -- Linus started Linux as an April fools joke from this April fools joke.

"This has been brewing since april 1991"

https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/524692/linus_torvalds...

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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by dang on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:39PM (#24238165)
Nice. I found https://web.archive.org/web/19991009073514/http://www.stokel... but clear cues in the text are always better.

Edit: hmm. They say over 20 years. That probably means later than 1989 but not 1999.

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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by variaga on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:57PM (#24237796)
also really classy to put their own copyright notice on a document "found on usenet and the author could not be determined"
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by djsumdog on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:31PM (#24238103)
probably just a standard footer that wraps everything
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by variaga on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:41PM (#24238181)
Yeah, probably, but that still doesn't make it right.
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by java-man on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:10PM (#24237921)
"At one time, we joked about selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years."

Hilarious. Ended up selling it to everybody.

But seriously, given the long history of failures (i.e. search CVE database for buffer overflow), this joke does read like a true story.

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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by ThePowerOfFuet on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:07PM (#24237890)
> This piece was found on Usenet. This is fiction, not reality. Always remember that this is not true. It's really a joke, right? -- Editor
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by djsumdog on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:32PM (#24238116)
Nah, I refuse to believe it. Death to the author. Poe's Law and all that.
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by dylan604 on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:58PM (#24238323)
"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don’t think that is a coincidence."

Nice. Does this mean to be a successful Unix Admin you also need to be an accomplished psychonaut?

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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by dennis_jeeves on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:30PM (#24240459)
>Dennis Ritchie said: "What really tore it (just when ADA was catching on), was that Bjarne Stroustrup caught onto our joke

Lol.

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