1983 UBC PDP-11 Unix tools distribution

Lyndon Nerenberg lyndon at orthanc.ca
Wed Mar 6 15:07:18 CST 2019


Al Kossow via cctalk writes:
> On 3/6/19 10:14 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk wrote:

> sigh.. before this goes farther into the weeds, the tape
> came from the University of British Columbia's Biosciences Data Center
>
> there is a short bio of Bill Webb at
> http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people
>
> I guess there aren't enough Unix greybeards around here any more.
> The UBC tape, like Usenix tapes, Yale E editor, and the RAND editor tapes
> were just things you knew about.

I stumbled across Bill Web during my MTS days, well before I
discovered UNIX.  I used more than a few of his MTS programs
that leaked out of UBC to UQV.

--lyndon
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