Merced - and the ol' Unix story (was Re: OT, but info needed: RAM uprade)

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_monmouth.com>
Date: Sat Jan 16 14:40:19 1999

> > That was DEC, when they were first plugging Ultrix.
>
> DEC may have done so, but they originally came from Armando Stettner, one
> of the early Unix developers, at one of the unix conferences. I don't
> think Ultrix goes quite as far back as 1980?
>
> --
>
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of York
>
>
Actually, it was DEC, who had a Unix support group working
to help market to Unix users before Ultrix. Stettner, I believe,
worked in that group.

DEC revived the license plates as a prize give-away at Unix expo...
at the OSF/1->Digital Unix timeframe.

A couple of years ago I won one.

Bill

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