Since I don't want to be guilty of spreading unfounded information, I'll
still respond, if tersely, to Rod{erick,rigo}, who doesn't appear to
have cc'd me either.
I'll quote [0]:
> What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to
> do programming, but a system around which a fellowship could form. We
> knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as
> supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type
> programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close
> communication.
dmr also (somewhat awkwardly) read that up from his tty in a promotional
video once. Thinking about the atmosphere depicted in the video, perhaps
'fellowship' is a more appropriate term than 'family', indeed.
Not that Rod{erick,rigo} was that much off: he simply looked at it from
a different angle.
--zeurkous.
[0] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html
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Friggin' Machines!
