[TUHS] Dating quotes (was: What happened with XENIX?)

reed at reedmedia.net reed at reedmedia.net
Thu Jan 9 09:48:55 AEST 2020


On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Wednesday,  8 January 2020 at 12:18:01 +0000, Michael Kj?rling wrote:
> >
> > So by "mid 1980", what would eventually lead up to the IBM PC was at
> > most _just barely_ getting started.
> 
> Right, but my recollection is that the original quote was "mid 1980s"
> (i.e. round 1985), not "mid 1980".

"mid-1980" (without "s") was from page 31
https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol02_10.pdf/page/n29
(It is in a sidebar; I will still attribute it to Gates.)

(I'd think mid-1980s with "s" wouldn't make sense for an article written 
probably before October 1985.)


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