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From: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Who owns Unix(tm)? (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 15:24:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 15:24:41 1987
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In article <1459@killer.UUCP> molly@killer.UUCP (Molly Fredericks) writes:
>In article <8508@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> I'm told there was a
>> lot of internal debate before the release of System III, mostly along the
>> lines of "do we really want to license our spiffiest software technology
>> to our competitors?!?".  Quit complaining, it could be a lot worse.

Well, we get system V instead of v[89], right?

>I was a college student back then.  We had a PDP-11/45 running System III
>and then one summer we got a System 4.0 tape from WECo.  This is a creature
>that I've never seen since, nor ever even heard talked about.

That's odd, System 4.0 was supposed to be an internal-only release.
It evolved into System V.

Snoopy
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