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From: tom@rabbit1.UUCP (Tom Donohue)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Z-80 Unix?
Keywords: z-80 unix whitesmiths
Message-ID: <551@rabbit1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 88 19:54:30 GMT
References: <278@pte.UUCP> <1466@ssc.UUCP> <427@ucrmath.UUCP> <865@vsi.UUCP>
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In article <865@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
> In the early days, Whitesmiths felt they were In Charge of C
> programming.  Above, `rewrote 90% of the libraries' means that
> the usage and function names were different as well.  For example:
> 
> 		putfmt("The number is %i\n", i);
> 
> replaced your good old printf.  After a time, they released a
> compatible library, but it was likely due to outrage.


At the time (~1979), I beleive Whitesmiths was afraid of incurring
the wrath of AT&T.  Copyrights and such.  Perhaps they were overly
cautious, or perhaps it was a valid concern.  I don't know where
I heard this, but it wasn't from Whitesmiths, so take it with a grain
of salt.
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