[TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Wed Jan 10 16:53:51 AEST 2018


On Tuesday,  9 January 2018 at 23:25:32 -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> Things like this don't really occur in one day [1]  "Unix was born in
> 1969 not 1974" - dmr
>
> Is it fair to say 1/1/1970 is the spiritual christening and the day to
> celebrate?

Clearly wkt has something else in mind if he wrote "18 months".  I
don't think 1 January 1970 had any meaning until it became the
(currently last) epoch.

Greg
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