[TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!)

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Feb 7 13:03:13 AEST 2018


On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Warner Losh wrote:

>       Motorola's satellites were in orbit -- I forgot the name of the
>       actual venture -- and MS had just paired with somebody to put
>       their own satellites up.  Fear everywhere.)
> 
> Wasn't that Iridium? A joint venture with Qualcomm, IIRC.

Shouldn't that be called "Osmium"[*] now? :-)

[*]
Interesting metal, osmium; stinks to high heaven, just like... never mind.

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