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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?)
- Message-ID: <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Homosexual Fascist Lobby, Rampant Paranoia Division
- References: <Bx11EM.30o@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov2.123843.2787@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:10:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov2.123843.2787@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- >
- >>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?
- >
- >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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- I heard that, but I also heard that Thompson's *primary* goal was to
- find a machine for playing Space War. What's the story?
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