M.J. Sammon wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
>> Anyways, this was a
>> VMS 3.2 system at a time when the current UNIX was BSD
>> 4.1 with BSD 4.2 being a fresh release.  Sun was a tiny niche
>> player at the time with a brand new manufacturing facility.
>>
>
> Sorry, being an ex Bell Labs researcher, I have to give credit where
credit is due.
> While you're correct in that the version of BSD at the time was 4.1,
> the official version of UNIX at the time (System III) was still
controlled by AT&T/Bell Labs.
> It was soon succeeded by System V which included features from BSD.

Ooops - The current systems I worked on at the time were VMS 3.2
doug{at}jpl-vlsi.arpa and BSD 4.1 ihnp4!escher!doug.  I phrased it poorly.
Thanks for the correction to what I did write.

> Thank God the movie didn't make any references to Solaris -- I'm sure
> the Master Control Program (Larry Ellison) would love free marketing
for his product.

Chortle!  We must all make offerings to Uncle Larry.  Fortunately he
accepts credit or debit.  ;^)
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