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From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.123556.25987@odi.com>
Date: 16 Oct 89 12:35:56 GMT
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Reply-To: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
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<warning -- semi-sarcartic comment follows>

Computer scientists spend their time writing down meta-programs in
incomprehensible greek letters to prove the computation equivalent of
the inability of bumblebees to fly. They don't write operating
systems.

<end of sarcasm>

seriously, Unix has almost nothing to do with the bulk of computer
SCIENCE, as opposed to the engineering of operating systems.
One could be the world-wide expert in LR(4) grammars or Petri Nets 
and have no good reason to know Ken T. from Richard Nixon.

-- 
Benson I. Margulies