From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:27:19 -0500
Subject: [pups] Mert (was PWB licensing)
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:01:52PM +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote:
> silly question: what are MERT and RT anyway?
> all the timelines list them, but not one actually expands the acronym.

Early realtime variants of Unix.  I don't think it's correct to state
that MERT "never made it outside the Labs" -- wasn't dMERT ("duplex 
MERT") the original operating system for the multiprocessor 3B20 in
the #4 and #5ESS telephone switches?  Indeed, vestiges of this use
have crept into more modern AT&T Unix releases; for instance, there
are references to MERT system call and signal numbers in various SVR4
header files.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls at rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
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