From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 15:13:30 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, William Pechter wrote: > Perhaps the Prime OS or perhaps Domain OS from Apollo would have been > the workstation of the tech world. I almost worked for Pr1me once (I worked next door to them in North Sydney); what stopped me was their notion that "1" was a prime number (yes, I'm a mathematician)... > Apollo had a lead on Sun back in the day. I used to work for Sun, and we hated Apollo :-) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."