Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!gatech!mandrill!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!phri!roy 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) Lines: 13 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 {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net