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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:58:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp>
- References: <95652@netnews.upenn.edu> <Bx11EM.30o@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov2.123843.2787@global.hacktic.nl>
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- In article <1992Nov2.123843.2787@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
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- >UNIX was designed by hackers for hackers (or by programmers for programmers,
- >whichever you like best). But it is flexible, programmable, etc. so it could be
- >made to a real end-user system. And why not?
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- I thought Unix was written by Bell as a word-processing system
- to enable them write their the phone company manuals.
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- (albeit - over-simplified but that was one of the orignal goals)
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