[TUHS] Was the SVID A Foregone Conclusion Pre-usr group?

[Tom Lyon]

Just for historical accuracy - I believe Bill Shannon first had the New
Hampshire UNIX plate and Armando got it after Bill moved to Sun.
Evidence: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FYR17LRpJNpSBCGv8

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
>> Sort of like when DEC finally recognized that people were buying their
>> hardware to run UNIX.   Still remember Armando getting up and saying
>> something to the effect that DEC hardware and UNIX had been synonymous for
>> years and that DEC finally noticed and the held up the first DEC UNIX
>> license (plate).
>>
>> Clem Cole had--and still has--the Massachusetts UNIX license plate on his
> car.  I don't know when he first got that plate.  Armando had the New
> Hampshire UNIX license plate.   It was on a snazzy red Datsun 280 ZX.  At
> the time (early 1980s) I was driving a frumpy rust-bucket Datsun B210.  I
> had the New Hampshire VAXVMS license plate.  Armando jokingly threatened to
> park his sports car next to my car and take a picture of the two OS license
> plates side-by-side.
>
> AT&T's "consider it a standard" campaign was pretty successful in getting
> corporate executive types thinking about UNIX.  Sort of along the lines of
> the "Intel Inside" campaign, which actually got ordinary folks to care
> about whose chip was in their PC.
>
> But AT&T never was able to take advantage of the opening the "consider it
> a standard" campaign provided.  In addition to the reasons Clem cited, I
> think AT&T simply never learned how to compete in an open market.  They had
> been a regulated utility monopoly for so very long.
>
> -Paul W.
>
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