Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!gatech!rutgers!husc6!necntc!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: procedural interfaces Message-ID: <2349@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 08:09:04 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2349 Posted: Wed Jul 1 08:09:04 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 05:20:45 EDT References: <8706291746.AA09491@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 10 krowitz@mit-kermit.UUCP (David Krowitz) wrote: > If a feature is > needed in the OS, the thing to do is to get together 10 or 20 people > from across the country (easy enough to do with email) and have a UCR writing > party... Hmm, in the Unix community we have a code writing party instead, and then post the change to the net. In their next release Berkeley picks it up. Two years later Sun and DEC pick it up. Five years later AT&T picks it up but changes its name.