3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
11:15 p.m.
On 06/03/2013 08:45 PM, ben wrote:
Why did real UNIX never get out the the unwashed
masses?
Short answer: Judge Green, ineptitude and lawyers and slow machines.
Also that, until Judge Green, AT&T could only give Unix away in the form
of a 9-track 1/2" tape that could be booted on a PDP-11 (an 11/70 in my
case).
After Judge Green, it took AT&T forever to figure out what they were
going to do with the thing. And they were very slow in getting SysV
out, compared with BSD.
For the great unwashed masses, compute power wasn't yet at the level
where Unix was practical. Can you imagine having an unwashed user
struggle with X and Unix in 1987 for a GUI?
--Chuck