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From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The John Snow's of the UNIX family
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:47:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBdUk4JTfuAR-3Eh-UPeJYpPS37NHbp3HPuPbq5GXs3_Ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn0n1dV1msPb6DcCHKNQCOT=-2=5e3Ge-p6CZAz17yBURw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 23:08, George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:

> In my opinion, the popularity of a UNIX platform is tightly tied to
> the availability of the platform at university.
>

That's a very good point.  But going too far in that direction may have
been a problem too.  My understanding is that Omron's Luna 88K line was
very closely tied to the education market.  It ran a customized version of
Mach, so in some sense I suppose they were tied to CMU from the get-go, and
my understanding is that they courted the education market heavily.
Oberlin College was given, outright, a four processor 88K Luna.  Today I'm
not sure you could find a running Luna if you wanted to.

-Henry

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-16  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-16  3:49 alan
2019-01-16  4:07 ` George Michaelson
2019-01-16  4:47   ` Henry Bent [this message]
2019-01-16  6:05     ` Warner Losh
2019-01-16 14:24   ` Dan Cross
2019-01-16 14:40     ` Jon Forrest
2019-01-16 14:40     ` Kevin Bowling
2019-01-16 14:58       ` Dan Cross
2019-01-16 15:10         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-16 15:50       ` Clem Cole
2019-01-16 14:51     ` Chet Ramey
2019-01-16 15:05     ` Adam Sampson
2019-01-17  6:53     ` [TUHS] UREP - Unix RSCS Emulation Program arnold
2019-01-16 15:44 ` [TUHS] The John Snow's of the UNIX family Clem Cole

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