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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re:  Unix and the future (heating up)
Message-ID: <2660@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-May-85 01:57:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.2660
Posted: Thu May  2 01:57:28 1985
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Courts of Chaos
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Summary: 

>> 	d) Office automation systems of various sorts[some current, some future]
>> 		old example: Air Force Data Services Center (?) text processing
>
>Unix for word processing??  Is this a joke or something??

No joke. If you haven't seen the Author system (TRW did it) you don't
understand the possibilities. Unix doesn't live or die on Troff. Thank
goodness.

>> 	e) ??? Inside the NSA: I'm not sure what they do in there, but they've
>> 		sure had UNIX a LONG time, starting with PWB/UNIX in 75/76.
>
>Might not NSA need to develop programs to be put into PROMs?

Might not this be a random stab in the dark? Refuting facts with
conjectures doesn't help...
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:From the offices of Pagans for Cthulhu:          Chuq Von Rospach
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Who shall forgive the unrepentant?