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- From: gdh@calmasd.Prime.COM (Gerald Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?)
- Message-ID: <5222@calmasd.Prime.COM>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 05:08:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.123843.2787@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp> <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu>
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- In article <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >>>UNIX was designed by hackers for hackers (or by programmers for programmers,
- >>I thought Unix was written by Bell as a word-processing system
- >>to enable them write their the phone company manuals.
- >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?
-
- Yes, UNIX is both a floor wax and a desert topping. It was originally
- writen by programmers for their own use, but the first official funding
- was to put it to work as a word processing system (ed and troff!).
-
- Who was it who said they were not sure what would be the "operating
- system of the future" but they were pretty sure it would be called
- UNIX System V?
-
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- / Jerry, CalmaSD UNIX SysAdmin, +1 619 587 3065
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