Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition, and computer languages. He has a 1963 PhD in Linguistics from New York University. He is best known for his books on the history of computing, particularly A Quarter Century of UNIX and Casting The Net (a history of the Internet up to 1995).
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The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin
Post date: 08 Oct 2007Shows the reader just what went into the creation of open source and its worldwide network of contributors and users over the past 50 years.
Publication date: 01 Apr 2007
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic
Document Type: Book
The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin
Post date: 08 Oct 2007Shows the reader just what went into the creation of open source and its worldwide network of contributors and users over the past 50 years.
Publication date: 01 Apr 2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Document Type: Book
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Document Type: Book
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