UNIX history made easy

[Dan Schlitt]

In article <11239 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
-In article <17108 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
--In article <1694 at muffin.cme.nbs.gov> libes at cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes:
-->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.
-
-The point is, if you don't know who Backus, Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth,
-Thompson, Wirth, etc. are and what their major accomplishments were,
-you shouldn't advertise yourself as a professional computer scientist.
-

Will it be on the final exam?

I guess 25 years of university level teaching made me into a terrible
cynic.  In another article reference was made to physicists and Nobel
prize winners in physics.  Don't expect better levels of knowledge
there.  You are bound to be disappointed.

The real test is whether the person originally mentioned in this tread
now knows who Thompson is, or did he just dismiss it with a question
from the same family as that above.
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Dan Schlitt                        Manager, Science Division Computer Facility
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