anna's archive has it in a 20MB Pdf. you can find a link for that archive on the Wikipedia for the Anna's archive.
TZubiri 1 days ago [-]
No thank you. I recommend not downloading stuff from a website that cannot hold a Domain for longer than a year and forces you to learn what the 'real domain' is and asks you not to fall for any imposters.
If not for legal reasons, then for security reasons.
The Internet Archive doesn't have to evade law enforcement and doesn't ask you to put your systems at risk.
armada1122 2 days ago [-]
His name shows up everywhere in the Unix bibliography but I'll be honest — I've used A Quarter Century of Unix mostly as a lookup for specific stories rather than reading it cover-to-cover. For folks who read it as it came out: where would you point someone today who wants the full sweep? It's hard to tell from outside which of his books hold up as essential vs. which show their age.
Tangent, but: is anyone doing comparable oral-history work for the current LLM moment? It feels like a lot of it is going to survive only as scattered blog posts and conference talks, and I don't know who's playing the role Salus did for Unix.
oldspleen 2 days ago [-]
During college, his Unix history book was the first one I read that actually made the AT&T => BSD => linux throughline make sense. RIP.
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.
If not for legal reasons, then for security reasons.
The Internet Archive doesn't have to evade law enforcement and doesn't ask you to put your systems at risk.
Tangent, but: is anyone doing comparable oral-history work for the current LLM moment? It feels like a lot of it is going to survive only as scattered blog posts and conference talks, and I don't know who's playing the role Salus did for Unix.
I met him in a few conferences, back in the day. We ended up talking more about linguistics than Unix history, somehow.