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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: omitting externs
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 15:56:44 EST
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> What you meant to say was "AT&T to the contrary, UNIX is not the whole
> world."  S3, 4.xBSD, and even your beloved V7 also permitted you to omit
> 'extern' everywhere...

Well, yes, I'd noticed, actually :-).  But the original article referred
to Vr2 as if it *were* the only thing in the world, so I thought slamming
people for Vr2centrism was more precise than slamming them for Unixcentrism.
The two statements are not mutually exclusive, since the world outside Vr2
includes the world outside Unix.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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