From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 2 9:36:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE2314F8A for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA25401; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:36:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Wes Peters Cc: David Scheidt , Darryl Okahata , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script: References: <3754898D.D2C7E08D@softweyr.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Jun 1999 18:36:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:31:57 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters 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