[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

Bob Eager rde42 at spamcop.net
Tue Nov 10 02:39:55 EST 2009


On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:50:20 -0500, Rich Alderson wrote:

>> It was a research project for many years. It had to be pried from their
>> hands to be used outside Bell Labs.
> 
> Actually, while it was "just" a research project, that is, through
> version 6, Ken and Dennis were happy to give Unix away (send them a
> tape, get it back with Unix on it).

Yes, that's how I started in mid-1976!

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