From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 15:48:56 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uunet!psinntp!atm.com!usenet From: davidsco@atm.com (Davidson Corry) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 30 Nov 1994 19:53:19 GMT Organization: Attachmate Corp. Message-ID: <3bil7f$rjr@eve.atm.com> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3b5h8q$de0@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3bcntp$dgj@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3be9as$jrh@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.82.30.122 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Date: 1994-11-30T19:53:19+00:00 List-Id: In article <3be9as$jrh@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) says: > >...Indeed, many people credit AT&T with popularizing Unix; my recollection >is that AT&T Unix was something of a research curiosity till Berkeley >"enhanced" it and - a few years later - Sun Microsystems (which can >be thought of as originally a Berkeley "spinoff") popularized it as >a commercial system. I think AT&T's** decision to make Unix binaries and source code available cheaply to educational institutions _did_ popularize Unix, by exposing an entire generation of programmers to it during their formative years. By the time they graduated into industry, it was the tool they knew best (and some, inevitably, mistook this for a proof that it was the best tool) and so they carried it with them into their jobs. Certainly the BSD variants helped to make Unix useful and popular. I wonder if BSD would even exist, if AT&T hadn't made the source cheap? **(It's as silly to speak of "AT&T" making a decision as it is to say that "Microsoft thinks..." I'm sure _somebody_ at AT&T realized what the effect would be of giving Unix away to colleges. I've just never heard that it was the official policy of the Machiavell... excuse me, of the Marketing Department.)