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From: jjacobs@well.sf.ca.us (Jeffrey Jacobs)
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Subject: Re: Feeling about bug reporting experiences, and GNU
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Date: 5 Nov 90 20:47:59 GMT
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Back in the golden days of computing, fixing the operating system was one
of the chief duties of "systems programmers", and every vendor supplied
source code to the operating system, including the IBM mainframes and
DEC 10s.

Jeffrey M. Jacobs
ConsArt Systems Inc, Technology & Management Consulting
P.O. Box 3016, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
voice: (213)376-3802, E-Mail: 76702.456@COMPUSERVE.COM