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: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 15:28:41 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 30 Nov 1994 18:07:25 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3bj0jd$rp1@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3be9as$jrh@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <5963@gec-mrc.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8116 comp.lang.c:32663 comp.programming:5512 comp.lang.c++:39029 comp.object:9200 Date: 1994-11-30T18:07:25-05:00 List-Id: In article <5963@gec-mrc.co.uk>, Paul Johnson wrote: >Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote: > >> 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. Berkeley's funding came (mostly) from ARPA. > >There was also DEC Ultrix on the VAX, another commercialised BSD 4.2. >I think that may have predated SunOS. It was certainly my first Unix. Could be, though as I recall, Sun's first machines came out in about 1981 (I ordered an early Sun-100 for a project; I think it was that vintage). If I recall, that was pre-Ultrix, still in the days when folks were running "straight" BSD on their Vax-en and DEC was pretending UNIX didn't exist. At some point DEC bowed to the inevitable and brought Ultrix out. It was certainly around the same time as SunOS; I seem to think it was a tad later. Really it doesn't matter - the point was that (D)ARPA brought UNIX to real popularity by funding Berkeley. And (D)ARPA is part of DoD. Mike Feldman