12 Jul
2020
12 Jul
'20
2:36 a.m.
Warren Toomey writes:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:36:35AM -0400, Clem Cole
wrote:
So there's a question. Obviously all the anecdotes I've heard about
Bell Labs have come from Unix people. But there were many others
working and researching there.
How was the interaction between the Unix people and the non-Unix people
at the Labs? Especially when Unix became "big"? Did the non-Unix people
also pull pranks like the watertower?
Cheers, Warren
That's kind of a strange question. I was never a "UNIX person" when I was
there because UNIX just wasn't that big a deal then (versions 3-6). I worked
on other stuff, and used UNIX for documentation. I was intrigued and learned
a lot more about it, and hung out in the UNIX room late at night because it
was the place to be, but UNIX was a negligible blip compared to everything
else going on there. Astonishingly enough, people worked on things related
(even if tangentially) to telephony.
Jon
