Armando’s plates didn’t say ULTRIX.   The ULTRIX plates cae later (some 
complete marketing disaster at DEC).

Armondo’s plate said UNIX.    At one USENIX meeting, Armando got up and 
made an announcement that for many years UNIX and DEC had been 
synonymous, but DEC had never realized it.   He was therefore happy to 
announce the first UNIX license from DEC and held out up one of the 
plates.     I still have mine.

Armondo had a NH vanity plate that said UNIX (like the replicas given 
away).   He also had one of the DEC replicas on his car complete with 
the state renewal stickers.   At one point it went missing.   He 
announced that on the net, which led to a lot of people mentioning that 
they hadn’t seen it wherever they were.   I believe he ultimately did 
recover it.



------ Original Message ------
From "Richard Salz" <rich.salz@gmail.com>
To "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
Cc "TUHS main list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Date 5/10/2022 9:33:59 PM
Subject Re: [TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code?

>Per wikipedia (FWIW), V7M was for PDP-11; Ultrix was the first VAX unix 
>project and based on 4.2BSD.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrix
>
>Armando Stettner is probably most famous for the NH license plate 
>"Ultrix"  The NH state motto, which appeared on all their license 
>plates, was "Live Free or Die"
>