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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PDP-10 user I/O (really: third-party operating systems)
Message-ID: <23004@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 31 May 88 14:49:07 GMT
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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In-reply-to: jkrueger@daitc.ARPA's message of 31 May 88 09:00:07 GMT


>enjoy twenty years of service.  It will be interesting to see which
>currently widely available operating systems will be remembered when
>they hit twenty.  Will you still need them, will you still feed them?

Depending on exactly where you start counting from Unix is getting
close to 20 years old, the date 1969 is often given as the beginning
of development. Even if you're just counting when it was first
distributed outside the labs that's around 73-74 so 20 is w/in 1..5
years. I suspect Unix will survive that period more or less intact (if
it survives the next 12 months...:-) I was at the Unix 10th birthday
party at DECUS, I think that was 84.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University