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What horse pucky. The first Unix systems were used by Bell Labs' patent department to process patent applications. It was this first customer of the Unix group
by davecheney 12y ago
What horse pucky. The first Unix systems were used by Bell Labs' patent department to process patent applications. It was this first customer of the Unix group that sponsored the development of Unix for many of its formative years.
- coldtea 12y ago>The first Unix systems were used by Bell Labs' patent department to process patent applications. It was this first customer of the Unix group that sponsored the development of Unix for many of its formative years. That's the seventies. Or at best early eighties. We're talking about the last 30 years. Not to mention that whatever customers Bell Labs had, doesn't translate that Richie, Pike and co were running Unix in production or cared about those systems and those customers themselves... They had moved on to other researchy stuff...
- SixSigma 12y agoPOP was written in 1999 The last Unix release with people from the the Lab was UnixWare 7.1 (1999), the last from AT&T in 2001. Anything else is not Unix. We know Rob wrote Utah 2000 in that year. That's 15 years ago.