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  1. Xref: sparky comp.unix.questions:13065 alt.folklore.computers:15918
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  4. From: root@trebor.uucp (Bob Stockler)
  5. Subject: Re: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?)
  6. Organization: Bob Stockler
  7. Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 22:19:39 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <1992Nov06.221939.5848@trebor.uucp>
  9. References: <1992Nov2.123843.2787@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp> <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov6.092937.4370@pollux.lu.se>
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  12. magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Thompson and Ritchie seemed pretty proud about the 600 installed
  15. >systems in 1978; I wonder what they'd have said if somebody had told
  16. >them back then that there'd be millions of Unix systems within 15
  17. >years... 
  18.  
  19. They probably would have renegotiated their employment contracts to
  20. more specificly include sweeter "residuals".
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