On Jan 16, 8:22, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Subject: Re: Merced - and the ol' Unix story (was
Re: OT, but info
needed
Doug wrote:
> ObCC: Around 1980 or so, I knew somebody with a license plate that said
> "Unix: Live Free or Die". Was this issued by Bell Labs? And who has
one
they'd
like to sell?
That was DEC, when they were first plugging Ultrix.
DEC may have done so, but they originally came from Armando Stettner, one
of the early Unix developers, at one of the unix conferences. I don't
think Ultrix goes quite as far back as 1980?
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York