8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
8:58 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
It was from the magazine. I added the brackets for the date which came
from an earlier sentence in the article.
On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 at 16:22:41 -0600,
reed(a)reedmedia.net wrote:
> November 1985 issue has an article by Bill Gates.
"Significantly, at the time the XENIX project was started [mid 1980],
the IBM Personal Computer had not been announced."
You don't say where this quote comes from. The use of pluperfect
suggests that it's not from the Unix/World article. The PC was
announced in August 1981, and the PC-AT was released in August 1984,
so the date of the article fits well.