I was in the Systems Lab at UTSA in 1979 when a professor came in with a tape and said that he got it from Bell Labs with a thing called Unix. We had studied ab

I was in the Systems Lab at UTSA in 1979 when a professor came in with a tape and said that he got it from Bell Labs with a thing called Unix. We had studied about Multics and the word play wasn't quite obvious to me them. In any case, we did not have a PDP-11 to read it on; the lab had a Data General Nova. My attention was devoted to my project and I did not have time to waste on frivolous things like the newfangled OS from Bell Labs.