Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 20th Aug 2009 21:37 UTC, submitted by kernpanic
"The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore's Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines.
Given such permanent change, anything that survives for more than one generation of processors deserves a nod.
Think then what the Unix operating system deserves because in August 2009, it celebrates its 40th anniversary. And it has been in use every year of those four decades and today is getting more attention than ever before."
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2006-07-15
Well it's awkward to celebrate a birthday without one of the major pillars of UNIX: BSD.
"Call me grumpy (I've been ill and up since 2:30 this morning), but is this article for real? 40 years of Unix and the BSD word is non-existent?
Multics and Linux are mentioned. Thompson and the "academic community" are there (with no mention of Berkeley...) So is "becoming the chosen operating system for the internet" (still no BSD...). "
<a>http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/rant-of-the-day-33581</a>...