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- From: dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Dan Breslau)
- Subject: Re: UNIX: Acronym?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.183125.1703@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:31:25 GMT
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- etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:
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- >A couple of points, it was a pdp-7 not a pdp-8 and Unix was developed
- >by Richard Thompson who (or so the story goes) got tired of taking a
- >deck of cards to the local gcos system for cross assembly.
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- When Unix was first developed, Richard Thompson was still the
- lead guitarist of Fairport Convention, a great British folk-rock group.
- Perhaps you mean Ken Thompson?
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- ;-)
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- Dan Breslau
- dan@codex.com
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