Wes Peters <w...@softweyr.com> writes:
> David Scheidt wrote:
> > I should point out that UNIX's suitably as a document processing
> > enviornment is one of the reasons that UNIX received support from
> > BTL management.  The fact that it was stable, ran on cheap hardware,
> > and a cool programing enviornment were bonuses. 
>                 [...]  The ongoing text processing work became one
> of several projects that were developed at Bell Labs on UNIX, but 
> it was not the reason UNIX was created.

Umm, how does "UNIX's suitability as a document processing system is
one of the reasons UNIX received support from BTL management"
translate into "UNIX was created to run a word processor"?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no


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