Date: 02 Jun 1999 18:36:21 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script: Message-ID: <xzpg14a4l16.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:31:57 -0600" References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990601170731.40428A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <3754898D.D2C7E08D@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes: > David Scheidt wrote: > > I should point out that UNIX's suitably as a document processing > > enviornment is one of the reasons that UNIX received support from > > BTL management. The fact that it was stable, ran on cheap hardware, > > and a cool programing enviornment were bonuses. > [...] The ongoing text processing work became one > of several projects that were developed at Bell Labs on UNIX, but > it was not the reason UNIX was created. Umm, how does "UNIX's suitability as a document processing system is one of the reasons UNIX received support from BTL management" translate into "UNIX was created to run a word processor"? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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