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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: AT&T and the 3B*2
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 13:47:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 13:47:49 1984
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    >Wow--it's amazing what fantasies intelligent hackers can come up with
    >based on absolutely no data.  You're just going to have to cool your
    >buns until you can get your hands on the 3B2 and play with one (and
    >try and break it, of course).

I got my hands on a 3b2, didn't try to break it, was very impressed with
the hardware (and posted that opinion) and was monumentally unimpressed
with the demonstrated software.  Compiler, no assembler or loader, no
utility to page things a screenful at a time (not even "p" from K & P!)

    >It's not like we at Bell Labs did not
    >anticipate the plethora of problems posed by unbundling Un*x and its
    >occasionally meretricious user interface.

Neat. It might have been nice to *do* something about them before subjecting
your well-meaning but totally uninformed and inexperienced sales people in
AT&T Information Systems to such an embarrassing collection of software.

    >  I believe the line from
    >"Teahouse of the August Moon" was "We very humble people, boss, but we
    >not born yesterday."

Right.  It was 1 Jan 1984, as I recall: divesture day.

    >Remember--Unix is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
    >
    >ken perlow

That, like the Alamo and Pearl Harbor, is hard to forget.

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                                 Ed Nather
                                 {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!nather
                                 Astronomy Dept., U. of Texas, Austin