Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 00:17:50 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, etalent@bizjournals.com Subject: Re: What is BSD Message-ID: <15088.59902.80071.263738@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <124992994@toto.iv>
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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types: > Back in the days when I was, oh, about -13 years old (yes, that's a > minus sign), a man named Dennis Ritchie and some of his cohorts at Bell > Labs decided to build an operating system to run on their PDP-11 Um - that was a PDP-7, and it was never known as "Unics", but was Unix from the first, though that was indeed a pun on Multics. They didn't write a PDP-11 version of Unix until after the PDP-11 was available. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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