[TUHS] How to Kill a Technical Conference

Ed Bradford egbegb2 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 14:37:09 AEST 2021


To old BTL or AT&T folks or anyone else who might know.

I wonder. IBM introduced the IBM PC in August of 1981. That was years after
a non-memory managed version of Unix was created by Heinze Lycklama, LSX.
Is anyone on this list familiar with Bell Labs management thoughts on
selling IBM on LSX rather than "dos"? While the anti-trust settlement was a
couple years in the future, someone at AT&T must have been thinking about
possibilities after a breakup.

Ed

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 3:36 PM Richard Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 3:32 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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>>   The key for all of us, in this list and else where in the reset of the
>> UNIX industry is to try to avoid rewriting history, but to understand what
>> went down and accept it, and move on.
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> In that light, let's start a new thread: "My Favorite Usenix Papers."
> Change the subject line. No fair including one of your own on the list :)
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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
  Cicero
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