From: reed@reedmedia.net
To: UNIX Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dating quotes (was: What happened with XENIX?)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:48:55 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2001081743460.50@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200108215517.GP64020@eureka.lemis.com>
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 at 12:18:01 +0000, Michael Kj?rling wrote:
> >
> > So by "mid 1980", what would eventually lead up to the IBM PC was at
> > most _just barely_ getting started.
>
> Right, but my recollection is that the original quote was "mid 1980s"
> (i.e. round 1985), not "mid 1980".
"mid-1980" (without "s") was from page 31
https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol02_10.pdf/page/n29
(It is in a sidebar; I will still attribute it to Gates.)
(I'd think mid-1980s with "s" wouldn't make sense for an article written
probably before October 1985.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-08 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 10:56 [TUHS] Unix/World Magazines Warren Toomey
2020-01-07 22:22 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) reed
2020-01-07 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 23:27 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-07 23:36 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 12:40 ` Matt Rudge
2020-01-08 16:56 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-08 22:46 ` CHARLES KESTER
2020-01-08 7:46 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 0:44 ` [TUHS] XENIX and Linux (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 22:15 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 23:29 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-01-09 0:01 ` ron
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-09 0:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09 3:25 ` David Arnold
2020-01-09 4:56 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-07 23:21 ` Peter Cetinski
2020-01-08 0:50 ` [TUHS] IBM PC and XENIX (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 2:58 ` reed
2020-01-08 12:18 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? Michael Kjörling
2020-01-08 21:55 ` [TUHS] Dating quotes (was: What happened with XENIX?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 23:48 ` reed [this message]
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