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From: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Don't know much about history
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:20:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e35c06204062922203ce30f5b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I like to comb second-hand stores for overlooked geek books, and came
across Interactive Programming Environments, which includes a copy of
Kernighan and Mashey's UNIX Programming Environment paper from '81. 
There's an interesting passage:

"UNIX has spawned a host of offshoots---at least six companies offer
or plan to offer systems derived from or compatible with the UNIX
system...."

With a footnote listing the companies:

"Cromemco, Onyx, Yourdon, Whitesmiths, Amdahl, and Wollongong Group."

Does anyone know what became of these companies and the products they
did (or didn't) produce?

-Jack


             reply	other threads:[~2004-06-30  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-30  5:20 Jack Johnson [this message]
2004-06-30  7:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-06-30  7:26   ` Richard Miller
2004-06-30 21:34     ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-01  3:57       ` Geoff Collyer
2004-06-30  7:48   ` Richard Miller
2004-06-30 21:16     ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30  7:57   ` Richard Miller
2004-06-30  7:58   ` Geoff Collyer
2004-06-30  8:35     ` George Michaelson
2004-06-30 21:29       ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30 21:22     ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30 21:15   ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30  8:46 ` Steve Simon

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