Yes, sorry about that. Well, the problem probably got fixed ~10 years ago. Which is better than, say, ~5 years ago.
>It is my faded-memory impression that it was, as Timothy pointed >out, DEC's aggressive push of very low-cost and free "stuff" into >universities that both permitted and accelerated the rise of *ix >and also contributed to the decline of IBM mainframes on campus >(though that was not the only reason). My recollection is that DEC didn't really want it that way. DEC would have very much preferred if VMS and/or TOPS-10/20 got more popular in academia. Sure, DEC was happier if BSD UNIX ran on their PDP or VAX hardware rather than somebody else's hardware, but in hindsight that wasn't enough. It's impossible to re-run history, but I suspect that if DEC didn't provide subsidized hardware to run AT&T's/BSD's operating system then there'd just be some other subsidized hardware performing the same role. It would have been something of early 1970s vintage that competed with the PDP-11. Maybe something from CDC, Data General, or Honeywell/Prime. There was also a fortuitous bit of DARPA funding aimed at Berkeley that helped UNIX at a critical stage in its evolution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
