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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.)

      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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