56 points | by speckx an hour ago ago
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He was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.
During college, his Unix history book was the first one I read that actually made the AT&T => BSD => linux throughline make sense. RIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus
Quarter century of UNIX sounds interesting.
I found at least 1 copy in the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salu...
The cover looks redacted, as the "Sex, Drugs" from "Sex, Drugs, Unix" was removed. Hopefully the content wasn't censored as well.
RIP a goat
Now is hardly the time to injure any animals
He was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.
During college, his Unix history book was the first one I read that actually made the AT&T => BSD => linux throughline make sense. RIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus
Quarter century of UNIX sounds interesting.
I found at least 1 copy in the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salu...
The cover looks redacted, as the "Sex, Drugs" from "Sex, Drugs, Unix" was removed. Hopefully the content wasn't censored as well.
RIP a goat
Now is hardly the time to injure any animals