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From: molly@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Who owns Unix(tm)? (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <1459@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 00:16:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1459
Posted: Thu Sep  3 00:16:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 09:55:09 EDT
References: <1665@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <8381@utzoo.UUCP> <797@Pescadero.ARPA> <8508@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Keywords: Gross overbearing ripoff!
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Summary: More ancient history ...

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.

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.  In fact, some
times I wonder if it ever even existed.  (I almost never put it on a resume
since no one ever talks about it.)  I can't imagine it being much worse than
an entire release of an operating system being poofed into nothingness.

Molly
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       Molly Fredericks       UUCP: { any place real }!ihnp4!killer!molly
    Disclaimer:  Neither me, nor my cat, had anything to do with any of this
  "I love giving my cat a bath, except for all those hairs I get on my tongue"
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