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Date:      Thu, 3 May 2001 00:17:50 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, etalent@bizjournals.com
Subject:   Re: What is BSD
Message-ID:  <15088.59902.80071.263738@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <124992994@toto.iv>

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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types:
> Back in the days when I was, oh, about -13 years old (yes, that's a
> minus sign), a man named Dennis Ritchie and some of his cohorts at Bell
> Labs decided to build an operating system to run on their PDP-11

Um - that was a PDP-7, and it was never known as "Unics", but was Unix
from the first, though that was indeed a pun on Multics. They didn't
write a PDP-11 version of Unix until after the PDP-11 was available.

	<mike
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