Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 13:28, Bill Anderson wrote:
.... I remember when Bill Joy, who was
at BSD in those days, released vi as shareware.
I don't think that could have happened, since Vi / Ex were derived from
and included code from ed and hence were covered by AT&T copyright.
I was working for Onyx Systems at the time vi /ex became available. We
were porting Version 7 Unix to a Zilog Z8000 and the disk was a Corvus
ShoeBox disk. I was told to download it from Berkeley via good ol' uucp.
I did, I compiled, I have used it since. Licenses weren't my issue, as
Bob Marsh dealt with those details. This was my first exposure to Unix.
Roughly six years later, I was a Product Line Engineering Manger at
Fortune Systems. Those were wild and exciting days in Silicon Valley.
Bill Anderson
WW7BA
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