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on 06/23/2006
   at 09:15 AM, "Van Dalsen, Herbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:

>To me unix looks and feels very much like DEC/VAX, 

VAX is a hardware architecture; perhaps you mean VMS, which didn't
look remotely like Unix.

>and DEC surely precedes IBM !

Not even close; IBM is half a century older than DEC.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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