On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, John Cowan wrote: > > Congratubloodylations, as we say down-under; it is well-deserved. > > > > Without Unix I'd probably still be supporting RSX-11 and VMS etc; > > their foray into Unix (Eunice) was doomed. > > Whose foray?  Not DEC's.  Eunice was built at SRI and sold by the > Wollongong Group, who must have had Downundrian connections.  I was > always very happy with it, as I am with Cygwin today.  Ultrix, on the > other hand, was DEC's: a BSD with SysV hacks, as opposed to Solaris > which was the other way around. I have alternative facts :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_(software) ``Eunice was a Unix-like working environment for VAX computers running DEC's VAX/VMS, based on the BSD version of Unix. It was originally developed ca. 1981 by David Kashtan at SRI[1] and later maintained and marketed by The Wollongong Group.'' > The Dilbert strip probably explains why everyone who could, wore beards > in those days.  Just to prevent that mistake. At one place I worked, every Unix bod sported facial fungus; it must be a Unix thing... -- Dave