[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.
> 

One vote, like every other Senator.

Politicians like to take credit for bills they vote for.  As far as I know, that's all he 
was doing.  He might have been on a committee that had something to do with the bill ...

Did you know that a PDP-11 was the platform used to develop Unix ??