Linux and the Unix Philosophy

Foreword

For me, three major events happened in 1969:

As a student in a major eastern university I had stumbled on a new and

fascinating business of writing software for computers. In those days there was

no such thing as going down to your local computer store and buying a

shrink-wrapped box of software off the shelf. In fact, with the average com-

puter having less than four thousand words of memory, a processor measured

in millions of instructions per minute instead of billions of instructions per

second, and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy, software was

written to make maximum use of the machine’s power. Software was written

from