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From: mikeb@coho.ee.ubc.ca (Mike Bolotski)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU
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Date: 19 Oct 89 19:21:20 GMT
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In article <1989Oct19.140255.834@odi.com> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>
>(question: what widely used piece of software (that is, by real people,
>not by programmers) was ever developed at a University? If you
>can name one, are you quite sure it wasn't cleaned up by an evil
>software hoarder on the way to utility?)
>

The Berkeley VLSI tool set, especially espresso.

Mike
Mike Bolotski, Department of Electrical Engineering,
               University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 
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