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The system mentioned is TENEX (not *nix) according to http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/33-Hints/WebPage.html http://research.microsoft.com
by shenberg 10y ago
The system mentioned is TENEX (not *nix) according to http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/33-Hints/WebPage.html http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/33-Hi... (a great paper from '83 that was posted here recently. search for password to find the exact reference there)
- JoshTriplett 10y agoThanks for the correction. The version of the story I saw came from a systems programming book, which attributed it vaguely to some past UNIX system of yore. Glad to have a more accurate reference.