[TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code?

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Tue May 3 07:36:08 AEST 2022


On Mon, May 2, 2022, 8:22 PM Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:

> > On May 2, 2022, at 02:21, Dr Iain Maoileoin <iain at csp-partnership.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > ... In the UK in the 80s IBM had large bill-board adverts that ran along
> the lines of “…we took UNIX and added a million lines of code …..”.
> > I always thought (rather unfairly) YES, and every one of them was wrong.
> >
> > However one of my car registration plates is "AIX OK”.  I changed my
> mind later on….
>
> I love Barry Shein's snark on AIX (and occasionally paraphrase it for
> Linux):
>
> "AIX - It will remind you of Unix."
>

One of my favorites: "SMIT happens."

        - Dan C.
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