Assembling the history of Unix

Posted Jun 15, 2017 14:15 UTC (Thu) by joey (guest, #328)
Parent article: Assembling the history of Unix

Thompson responded with single-word messages: "Amazing," or, "Incredible."

Over the years I've noticed that I tend to write more concisely on technical topics than before. Now I see the end point.

Posted Jun 16, 2017 9:04 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (1 responses)

It seems to me that Thompson is unwarrantedly prolix. I would think that as the author of ed(1) he'd just reply “?” (or perhaps “!”).

Posted Jul 6, 2017 3:33 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Well, there is the (apparently unlikely to be true) anecdote of the two-character correspondence[1]. Maybe Thompson will make it happen?

Posted Jul 6, 2017 0:33 UTC (Thu) by vomlehn (guest, #45588) [Link] (1 responses)

Posted Jul 6, 2017 11:18 UTC (Thu) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link]

And his lucid and informative

was without peer, setting new standards for usability...