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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <1992Aug5.051412.8129@panix.com>
Date: 5 Aug 92 05:14:12 GMT
References: <7045@skye.ed.ac.uk> <KANDALL.92Aug4161214@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <1992Aug4.162951.25999@pony.Ingres.COM>
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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In article <1992Aug4.162951.25999@pony.Ingres.COM> jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger) writes:
>Michael Kandall asks:
>> Where do you think [BSDI] learned to write UNIX-like, mu, mt
>> operating systems?
>
>Where do you think Ken learned to write them?
>
>Models were available.  Do you think AT&T invented timesharing?

Or, to be more blunt, "Where do you think AT&T learned to write Multics-like,
mu, mt operating systems?"

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	 tls@panix.COM
  "Oh, you have wounded me!  I have very few prejudices, actually.  The
biggest problem is that I am intolerant of fools.  That is why I have
such a low tolerance level for Libertarians."  -- Jim McMaster