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Bell Labs Unix Group Disbanded
wandazulu writes "Peter Salus over at UnixReview.com is reporting that AT&T Department 1127, responsible for creating and maintaining Unix, has been officially disbanded. The article provides an interesting "where are they now?" list of the original authors of Unix."
"The article provides an interesting "where are they now?" list of the original authors of Unix."
They've joined Linco. Developing cutting-edge technology to put into a commodity OS. With Linus as Director.
What is cooking at Department # 1337.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
"Goodbye Dep. 1127 and thank you for all the code"
:)
Thank you 1127
dude, they wrote UNIX. Buy a clue (or some Ritchie/Kernighan editions) and get back to installing your nightly windoze patches.
Would you like someone to call the waaaaaambulance?
Speaking of which, what happened to Axel Rose? Does anyone know?
My brother was a Guns'n'Roses fan - well he always said they only had one and a half albums that were any good.
Anyway, what's Axel Rose doing now? Does he read slashdot?! Hi Ax!
"My take is that 1127 probably reached Schiavo status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
That expression is a tad insensitive, don't you think?
Yes, it is insensitive. He should have said "My take is that 1127 probably reached George W. Bush status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
Too bad their contributions to society can be measured in terms of:
Clippy
Wizards
Exploits
GUI inconsistencies
Flight simulators
BASIC
GPL Deconstructed
Right. But I can actually spell Newton, so he gets the credit.
Maybe the sick part was the non stop media bombardment with the same video of her when she was a vegetable, over and over. It brings to mind the SouthPark episode where Kenny is a vegetable, and the lawyer lost the last page of his living will. So Kenny ends up exploited on TV by Cartman's pull the plug faction, and Stan and Kyle's keep him alive faction. When the lawyer finds the last page of the will his one wish is if he ends up a vegetable DON'T PUT HIM ON TV.
@de_machina
Look, we're really sorry that you spent five years of your life learning [OCaml|Oberon|Smalltalk|APL|Pascal|$TOY_LANGUAGE] and now you can't find a job, or a date, or a hot meal. The road to recovery requires that you admit you were wrong and just move on with your life. You need accept that no one else cares about your academic language of choice.
No. If I have been able to see further, it is because I am surrounded by midgets.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.