UNIX history made easy

daniel.w.meeks borg at cbnewsc.ATT.COM
Sat Oct 7 10:14:47 AEST 1989


>Until the last year or two the Ivy schools have been predominantly
>Non-UNIX oriented. Schools with lots of money to spend traditionally
>spent it on big hardware (read IBM/Honeywell/Cyber/Univac/Pr1me) whereas
>spendthrifty schools purchased PDP's and VAXen. Only recently
>with the invention of the workstation have large scale purchases
>of UNIX boxes become prevalent.  And even so a lot of Computer Centers
>have opted for Macintosh and PC clusters in lieu of UNIX workstations.
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Even so I would have thought that Computer Science is old enough now
to start instructing on the history of operating systems etc and UNIX
along with Ken would have been mentioned.

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