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From: tim.newsham@gmail.com (Tim Newsham)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 09:10:56 -1000
Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:29 AM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>> years later those same rabble rousers would force unicode on us :)
>
> Hah!  Unix had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the Unicode age.
> Microsoft and Apple were well ahead on internationalization and mostly
> still are.

I was referring to the bell labs guys who wrote linux and later plan9...

> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org

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