Re: [tlug] Unix's 40th Birthday

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2009-08-21 11:30 +1000 (Fri), Jim Breen wrote:

> As Stephen wrote, it's in the periphery of mail servers, firewalls, and
> of course the search engines themselves where ****x  holds court.

Oh, one more point I wanted to make about that: that Unix, or rather
Linux and NetBSD, is so popular in these devices (as well as devices
such as my Sony Reader, for that matter) is, I believe, nothing to do
with Unix itself. It just happened to be the free OS and set of tools that
became predominant. I posit that it could just as easily have been FreeVMS,
had a decent clone of that gained enough momentum in the early '90s.

cjs
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