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I think that’s a reasonable argument, but in practice if Unix and C weren’t free it would have meant universities using tools that were closer to free — things
by KerrAvon 2y ago
I think that’s a reasonable argument, but in practice if Unix and C weren’t free it would have meant universities using tools that were closer to free — things like the UCSD p-system would have been more widespread. Different world; possibly a better one, if I’m right, which is unknowable.
- rjsw 2y agoThere were other free operating systems that universities could and did use like EMAS [1], UNIX beat them as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Multiple_Access_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Multiple_Access_Syst...
- pinewurst 2y agoEMAS only ran on expensive hardware, ditto MTS.