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From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:50:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <09fffa6e9f2fdb29ab25825d19594d8e.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403103840.16031.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

Bell Labs' decision to pull out of Multics still ranks in my mind as one
of the best management decisions I've ever had close contact with...

With respect to Dec's OSs vs Unix, I remember a visit from a Dec repair
person who ran "preventive maintenance" on our disc that wiped out the
file system!  His excuse was that Dec didn't support "permanent storage"
on the disc at the time...




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-18 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-18 15:03 Norman Wilson
2014-06-18 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 16:58   ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 15:55     ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 15:14 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 16:50 ` scj [this message]
2014-06-18 18:43   ` John Cowan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-20 13:05 Douglas Comer
2014-06-19  1:49 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 21:21 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-18 22:55 ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 17:48 Douglas Comer
2014-06-18 22:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 11:06 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 14:43 ` iking
2014-06-18 14:48   ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 18:21   ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-15 18:19 Norman Wilson
2014-06-16 16:13 ` iking
2014-06-16 22:01   ` Gregg Levine
2014-06-17  1:38     ` John Cowan
2014-06-17  1:56       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-06-17  3:13       ` iking
2014-06-17 12:14         ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 16:21           ` Ian King

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