Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!peterr From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) Newsgroups: net.usenix Subject: BWK joke, BLIT(TTY 5620) BOF Message-ID: <1779@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jul-83 18:24:00 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1779 Posted: Sun Jul 17 18:24:00 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 17-Jul-83 18:28:38 EDT Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 18 Another USENIX tidbit, from the Tuesday night Software Tools session, opening talk, by Brian Kernighan. He started off with a slide containing the answer to an exam question, taken from an OS class somewhere in the UK: "UN*X was written by a group of people at Digital Equipment Ltd. who left to form Bell Laboratories" Another highlight was the Teletype 5620 (BLIT, sort of, for sale) BOF; many marketing decisions have yet to be made regarding the selling of UN*X compatible software for the machine and user input was requested. Of the >40 people in the room, maybe 2 said they would buy the software in binary form only-- my impression was that this changed a few minds at Teletype (to quote a rep: "We hear you"). This largely typified the constructive interaction between potential users, Bell Labs BLIT developers, and Teletype reps at the BOF. However that decision goes, it appears that quite a bit of information will be released on the internal architecture of the machine, including a BELLMAC assembler manual.