10 Jan
2020
10 Jan
'20
2:20 a.m.
Yes, I totally agree. NIH was rampant at Bell Labs in the 1980s.
Management pushed us to use the internal tools rather than external
tools we liked better. 3B vs Sun comes to mind. Datakit vs TCP/IP.
Mary Ann
On 1/9/20 7:54 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
Frankly, other than NIH, I'm not sure why the
folks at AT&T decided to
create pg a few years later since more was already in the wild, but at
least it was a different program (Mary Ann's story of vi /vs/. se if
probably in the same vein).