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From: roy@phri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PDP-10 user I/O (really: third-party operating systems)
Message-ID: <3330@phri.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 88 23:05:15 GMT
References: <3327@phri.UUCP> <125@daitc.ARPA> <23004@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Posted: Wed Jun  1 19:05:15 1988

In article <23004@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> Depending on exactly where you start counting from Unix is getting
> close to 20 years old

	More amazing is that troff (if you count its roots back to the old
RUNOFF programs on TOPS-10) is probably even older than that.  Hardware and
Operating Systems may come and go but cranky old applications are here
forever.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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