325 mktmp 287 Mlynarik, Richard 224, 258, 267, 292 mmap 238 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 140 more 44 Morris, Robert 63 Morris, Robert T. 194, 257 Moscow International Airport 138 Motif 125 self-abuse kit 138 movemail 246 MSDOS 13, 293 rename command 190 mt@media-lab.mit.edu xxiv, 231, 305 Multics xxi, xxxv, 307 mv 28, 190 mvdir 276 MX mail servers 89 N nanny 199 Nather, Ed 105 National Security Agency 254 net.gods 98 Netnews 93 Network File System, see NFS Neuhaus, Trudy xxxii Neumann, Peter 13 New Jersey approach 312 NeWS 128, 141 newsgroups 96 moderated 97 NeXT 11, 14, 230, 296 NEXTSTEP 11, 14, 54, 141 NeXTWORLD Magazine 11 NFS 166, 263, 283–300 Apple Macintosh 284 exports 289 Macintosh 292 magic cookie 284 nfsauth 288 nick@lcs.mit.edu 95 Nietzche 186 Nightingale, Florence 27 ninit 198 nohistclobber 25 Norman, Donald A. xv, xxx Novell xix nroff 44 nuclear missiles 117 NYSERnet 299 O Objective-C 11, 14, 141 open 189 exclusive-create 295 Open Look clock tool 123 Open Software Foundation 125 open systems 225, 253 Open Windows File Manager 129 OpenStep 14, 141 Ossanna, Joseph 5 Oxford English Dictionary 45 P Pandya, Paritosh 81 parallelism 174 Paris, France 86 parsing 177 patch 103 patents xxxiii Ethernet 283 SUID 246 PATH environment variable 249 pavel@parc.xerox.com 34 PC loser-ing problem 313 PDP-11 6 Pedersen, Amy xxxii Pensj, Lars 196 Perlis, Alan 208 persistency 174 pg 44 pgs@xx.lcs.mit.edu 79, 167 Pier, Ken xix Pike, Rob 27 ping 248 pipes 161 limitations 162 pixel rot 138 Plato’s Cave 176 POP (post office protocol) 246 POSIX 13

326 Index PostScript 141 power tools 147 pr 175 preface xix process id 39 process substitutuion 152 programmer evolution 215 programming 173 programming by implication 177 Project Athena 288 Pros and Cons of Suns xxiv ps 8, 73 pwd 241 Q QuickMail 87 QWERTY 19 R Rainbow Without Eyes 46 ram@attcan.uucp 22 Ranum, Marcus J. 123 Raymond, Eric xxxi RCS 34, 237 rdist 236 read 189 readnews 102 real-time data acquisition 197 rec.food.recipes 100 recv 189 recvfrom 189 recvmsg 189 Reid, Brian 100 reliability 85 An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Unix Utilities 190 religious ecstasy 161 Request for Comments 77 responsibility 85 Ressler, Sandy 37 RFC822 78 RFCs 77 "Right Thing" design approach 311 RISKS 13, 258 Ritchie, Dennis xxx, xxxv, 5, 280, 307 early Unix distribution 229 rite of passage 23 rk05 229 rlogin 118 rm 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30, 35, 295 -i 28 rmdir 30, 295 rn 101 rna 102 Robbins, Steve 298 Rolls-Royce 221 Roman numeral system xx root, see superuser Rose, John xxiv Rose, M. Strata xxxi Rosenberg, Beth xxxi Roskind, Jim 208 round clocks 136 routed 8 Routing Information Protocol (RIP) 7 Roylance, Jerry 298 RPC 292 rs@ai.mit.edu 50, 65, 226, 248 Rubin, Paul xxxi, 253 Ruby, Dan xxxi S Salz, Rich xxx saus@media-lab.mit.edu 231 Scheme 173, 315 Schilling, Pete 13 Schmucker, Kurt xxxi Schwartz, Randal L. 24 SCO 11 screens bit-mapped 111 sdm@cs.brown.edu 209 Seastrom, Robert E. 50, 65, 104, 226, 248, 261 security 243 find 166 Sekiguchi, Steve 275 send 189 sendmail 61, 62, 63, 65, 83, 239, 256, 257 From 79 configuration file 74 history 63