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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  2.0 Compatibility
Message-ID: <00674019691@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 12 May 91 03:41:31 GMT
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From article <48821@ut-emx.uucp>, by greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp):
> In article <1991May8.234534.17793@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) writes:
>>Not to comment on the Amiga, but... in certain other newsgroups, that
>>statement would risk your life:  the old Multics hackers would be climbing all
>>over you in an instant....  :-)
>
> Gosh.  There are still living Multics hackers?  I thought the last of them
> had already died off.  Those people must be OLD.  :)

Not necessarily.

For example, as late as 1984, USL had a real live Multics system and a band
of fanatics that used it. I suppose those ex-Multicians are now in their
30's, but that's hardly as many years as you credit them with :-). (I
encountered Multics, too, but I hardly lay claim to being a "living Multics
hacker"... knowing a bit of PL/1, playing with the IPC, and reading a
couple of papers hardly qualifies one for that lofty position).

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