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From: larry@ihuxf.UUCP (Larry Marek)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: UNIX History (UNIX/RT)
Message-ID: <1701@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 10:53:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 12 10:53:11 1984
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This is about as UNofficial as it can be, but from the point of a  computer
system ``user'' UNIX/RT was a **PIG**.  It may have been great for certain
applications, but it certainly did NOT make a good general time-sharing
system!

Another point is that the whole system was riddled with bugs.  I had the
opportunity to work with some of the RT folks (on a few of the bugs) and my
impression was that they were a small group of people that were just
overloaded.  Apparently the "management" decision was that RT wasn't worth the
effort to "rescue" it.
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		Larry Marek
		 ihnp4!ihuxf!larry