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Article #621399Re: Old word processors
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:48
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:48
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Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes:
>On Wed, 2018-03-21, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:20 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>...
>>>>> It took Linus to turn unix into a true, and widely-used, personal
>>>>> operating system.
>>>>
>>>> Well ... 386BSD (becoming {Free,Net,Open}BSD was stable a little bit
>>>> earlier, but didn't get Linus' marketing push.
>>>
>>>That was my other thought: why Linux and not BSD?
>>
>> I suspect the SYSV v. BSD issue. Linux is much closer
>> to system V than BSD.
>>
>> Then there was IBM, SGI, HP and others pumping tons
>> of money into linux (by allowing employees to contribute
>> to Linux on company time, sponsering conventions, etc).
>
>They do that /now/, but I don't remember that they did in the 1990s,
>when Linux won.
I was at SGI in the 1990's, as part of a group that contributed
to linux (my contribution was kdb - the in-kernel debugger). Sequent (IBM)
was contributing RCU about then.
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