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- From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
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- Subject: Re: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?)
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:45:44 GMT
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- rivero@mdcbbs.com writes:
- > The way I heard it was that the Bell Labs had a wide variety of machines
- >which had accumulated, and UNIX was developed so that all the different
- >machines would have the same "front end", thereby making it easier for
- >users to move from machine to machine.
-
- By now you've probably figured out that this is totally untrue.
-
- The only bit I can add to this discussion (I can't remember if I heard
- this from Ritchie or someone else) was that when they got the PDP-11
- for the text processing system they spent almost all of the time
- building the portable version of UNIX and built troff et al on top of
- it at the last minute. I can't help but believe this given the
- comparative quality of the two sets of tools :-).
-
- jim frost
- jimf@centerline.com
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