dmr

endmatter/index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ further reading
 ---------------
 
 - _The Unix Programming Environment_ - Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
+- [The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html) - Dennis M. Ritchie
 - [AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0) (YouTube)
 - [I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds](https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf) - Paul Ford
 

index.html

@@ -2680,6 +2680,14 @@ This is part of the story of how ideas like e-mail and chat were originally
 born, well before networks took over the world:  As ways for the many users of
 one computer to communicate on the same machine.</p>
 
+<p>Says Dennis Ritchie:</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do
+programming, but a system around which a fellowship could form. We knew from
+experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by
+remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a
+terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.</p></blockquote>
+
 <p>Times have changed, and while it&rsquo;s mundane to use software that&rsquo;s shared
 between many users, it&rsquo;s not nearly as common as it once was for a bunch of us
 to be logged into the same computer all at once.</p>
@@ -3041,10 +3049,10 @@ April  5 2015
 
 
 <pre><code>$ seq 1 5 | shuf
-5
 2
-1
 3
+5
+1
 4
 </code></pre>
 
@@ -3126,6 +3134,7 @@ April  5 2015
 
 <ul>
 <li><em>The Unix Programming Environment</em> - Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike</li>
+<li><a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html">The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System</a> - Dennis M. Ritchie</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0">AT&amp;T Archives: The UNIX Operating System</a> (YouTube)</li>
 <li><a href="https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf">I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds</a> - Paul Ford</li>
 </ul>

shared_space/index.md

@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ This is part of the story of how ideas like e-mail and chat were originally
 born, well before networks took over the world:  As ways for the many users of
 one computer to communicate on the same machine.
 
+Says Dennis Ritchie:
+
+> What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do
+> programming, but a system around which a fellowship could form. We knew from
+> experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by
+> remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a
+> terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.
+
 Times have changed, and while it's mundane to use software that's shared
 between many users, it's not nearly as common as it once was for a bunch of us
 to be logged into the same computer all at once.