28 Sep
2017
28 Sep
'17
5:58 p.m.
On 9/28/2017 10:12 AM, Steve Johnson wrote:
I remember Bill Joy visiting Bell Labs and getting a
very complete demo of RFS
and being very impressed. Within a year, Sun announced NFS. It took USG 18
months after that to get RFS out the door. Just another example of how AT&T
could take a technical advantage and manage to squander it...
Speaking of Bill Joy, I remember going to a Unix group meeting at SRI sometime
in late 1977 or early 1978. I was working for Ford Aerospace, an early
commercial Unix adopter. I don't remember who was speaking, but at the end of
the talk somebody from the back of the auditorium asked a very deep
intelligent question. The person speaking was quite taken back by the quality
of the question, and asked who the person was. The person said "I'm Bill Joy,
a graduate student at Berkeley".
The rest is history.
Jon