Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 08 May 1999 13:58:07 -0400
In message <7h1pe6$3ak@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes:
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| In article <linux.kernel.199905080007.UAA31730@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>,
| Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote:
| >In message <7gvn8m$n9i@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes:
| >| david parsons \bi/ System V is Version 8.
| >
| >Ah, no. The numbered versions were *research* versions;
|
| I'm just relaying stuff I heard from people I know at Bell Labs.
| but I must disagree that the numbered versions were research,
| because I distinctly remember playing around on Version 6 and
| Version 7 Unices when I was stuck at the University of Wisconsin
| 20 years ago.
+--->8
Bell Labs was at the time in the habit of source licensing their research
OSes to universities very cheaply. That's how UC Berkeley got its hands on
Unix.
I don't think currently accepted business practices (== rapacity...) allow
such cavalier "giving away" of potential revenue producers these days :-(
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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