In the late 1960s, the need for computer software was outpacing the capability of technical schools, colleges, and universities to produce trained computer professionals to create that software—a phenomenon that became known as the software...
Since its creation in a Bell Labs attic in 1969, the Unix operating system has spread far beyond anything that its creators could possibly have imag-ined. It has led to the development of much innovative software, inf l uenced myriad programmers,...