[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these
JF Mezei
jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca
Sun Mar 18 23:54:16 EDT 2012
David Froble wrote:
> 2) Unix was developed at bell labs, some people know that
Funny you should mention this. When I worked at a bank the senior VP
for IT told me that Unix had been invented by IBM. (This was a true blue
IBM shop with IBM taking the bank VPs to lunch/golf all the time).
It is possible that Bell labs collaborated with Berkele to develop Unix?
or did they develop it all on their own with Berkeley developing their
"me too" copy that was not as hindered with copyright ?
> 3) Not that I'm a fan of Al Gore, but, hasn't that joke worn out yet? All the man said
> was that he was involved in the funding for R&D and implementation.
I never actually heard what he said. Just heard that he claimed to have
invented the Internet. I know he didn't "invent" it, but was always
curious as to the true meaning of this.
The internet did change radically while he was in office, going from
military/educational funding to commercial operations. And I am curious
to know what hand Al Gore had in that transformation.
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