Matthew D. Sacks http://matthewsacks.com System Administrator and Human Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:32:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A Quarter Century of Unix http://matthewsacks.com/2010/03/a-quarter-century-of-unix/ http://matthewsacks.com/2010/03/a-quarter-century-of-unix/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:23:40 +0000 matthewsacks http://matthewsacks.com/?p=57 I just completed reading “A Quarter Century of Unix” by Peter H. Salus. This book is the complete historical reference of how Unix became “free”, and the battles that existed therein. It also is an account of the various acts of ingenuity from Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and other luminaries. There is one quote which stuck with me in the book, by Dennis Ritchie, amongst other things.

“The greatest danger to good computer science research today may be excessive relevance.  .  .  Another danger is that commercial pressure of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode. . .

- Dennis Ritchie

I highly recommend this read.

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