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, MSGID_SHORT 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-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 03:20:09 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uknet!hrc63!gec-mrc.co.uk!paj From: paj@gec-mrc.co.uk (Paul Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Message-ID: <5963@gec-mrc.co.uk> Date: 30 Nov 94 08:41:37 GMT References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3b5h8q$de0@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3bcntp$dgj@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3be9as$jrh@felix.seas.gwu.edu> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8084 comp.lang.c:32537 comp.programming:5488 comp.lang.c++:38892 comp.object:9150 Date: 1994-11-30T08:41:37+00:00 List-Id: 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. Paul. -- Paul Johnson | GEC-Marconi Ltd is not responsible for my opinions. | +44 245 473331 ext 3245 +-----------+-----------------------------------------+ Work: | You are lost in a twisty maze of little Home: | standards, all different.