Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:54:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: edd@aic.net Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX System Message-ID: <199605131754.NAA28017@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199605131622.UAA00376@aic.net> from "edd@aic.net" at May 13, 96 08:22:24 pm
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> > > > I think there are no such thing as "Berkeley UNIX". If you refer to > > > BSD, you have to write BSD (and indicate release), > > > not UNIX. Because "UNIX" originally referred > > > to System V, again, IMHO. > > > > Didn't UNIX (tm) refer to the Unix (tm) Operating System from the time it > > went from UNICS to Unix. > > Maybe.... > > > Multi-cs -> Uni-x > > That's the truth :) > > -edd 'Could've sworn it went Multics-->Unics-->UNIX Uniplexed information and computer system or something like that. Someone with a Unix history library handy (I'm at work -- unfortunatly and won't be home for another 8-10 hours) check Libes "Life with Unix" and Salus "25 Years of Unix." (Titles recounted from memory...) Bill (an old Unix history teacher) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win96 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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