On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, John Cowan wrote:
Congratubloodylations, as we say down-under; it is well-deserved.
Without Unix I'd probably still be supporting RSX-11 and VMS etc;
their foray into Unix (Eunice) was doomed.
Whose foray? Not DEC's. Eunice was built at SRI and sold by the
Wollongong Group, who must have had Downundrian connections. I was
always very happy with it, as I am with Cygwin today. Ultrix, on the
other hand, was DEC's: a BSD with SysV hacks, as opposed to Solaris
which was the other way around.
I have alternative facts :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_(software)
``Eunice was a Unix-like working environment for VAX computers
running DEC's VAX/VMS, based on the BSD version of Unix. It was
originally developed ca. 1981 by David Kashtan at SRI[1] and later
maintained and marketed by The Wollongong Group.''
The Dilbert strip probably explains why everyone who
could, wore beards
in those days. Just to prevent that mistake.
At one place I worked, every Unix bod sported facial fungus; it must be a
Unix thing...
-- Dave