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- From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.105539.27652@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 10:55:39 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.221959.19464@sfu.ca> <1993Jan6.232531.18206@sol.UVic.CA> <C0JK4G.HIH@jti.com>
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- In article <C0JK4G.HIH@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >
- >I think this approach is limiting. It has led to such monumental
- >efforts as MIT Project Athena which have produced far fewer spinoffs
- >than were originally intended. (How many people here know that X
- >Window is *not* an Athena spinoff? Or that the Athena environment
- >still runs in exactly one place--the MIT campus?)
-
- I'd just like to correct this point. There is a pilot Athena
- project here at Oxford and also at Cardiff, Essex and a number
- of other places in the U.K.
-
- --Malcolm
-
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