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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:12:04 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday,
 Dennis Ritchie! [ really sun vs dec/apollo ]
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> 
> They weren't afraid to swim upstream, either. Even though NeWS never took
> off (even when combined with an X server), it was an interesting design,
> ahead of its time even.
> 
> 
NeWS had serious issues.   However, the same guy who was the NeWS proponent learned from mistakes and the result
was the must more successful Sun tehnology:   JAVA.