[TUHS] Coastal cultures, collaboration, creativity and Sun vs DEC.

[Larry McVoy]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:36:27PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> It seems like Unix is largely a child of the coasts. Notable work in Utah,
> Colorado and Chicago aside, it seems the bulk of early Unix work happened
> in either the greater New York metro area in northern New Jersey or the
> greater Bay area around San Francisco. 

There is a reason that a ton of the kernel group at Sun were from Wisconsin,
well, UW-Madison grads.  UW did some porting work, added NFS to BSD, they
were quite active in the 1980s.