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From: richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:29:36 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171219202936.795A71874077@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Brinkhoff's message of Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:08:58 +0000


> > In fact, I don't recall being aware of the existence of the ITS
> > movement at the time Unix arose.

> Was there ever a movement?  It was just four machines at MIT.

When AT&T sued BSD Inc over (among other things) the phone number
1-800-ITS-UNIX, the joke was that MIT should have sued them too.

-- Richard


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             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-19 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19 20:29 Richard Tobin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-12-20  1:03 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-19 18:48 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-19 20:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-12-19 22:26   ` Doug McIlroy
2017-12-19  6:00 Nigel Williams
2017-12-19  6:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-12-19  7:07   ` Don Hopkins
2017-12-19 18:21 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-19 19:05   ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-19 20:03     ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-19 20:14       ` arnold

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