16 Jan
2019
16 Jan
'19
8:40 p.m.
On 1/16/2019 6:24 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:08 PM George Michaelson
<ggm(a)algebras.org
<mailto:ggm@algebras.org>> wrote:
In my opinion, the popularity of a UNIX platform is tightly tied to
the availability of the platform at university.
I was in the CS Department at UC Berkeley for most of the 90s.
Looking at the presence of various Unix workstations was like
looking at the rings of a large tree. At various times, various
Unix workstation vendors would donate hardware in order to help
promote their version of Unix and/or their hardware. There were
the Sun years, the HP years, the DEC years, and the Intel-based PC
years.
Jon Forrest