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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message