Bill Anderson wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 13:28, Bill Anderson wrote:
.... I remember when Bill Joy, who was at BSD in those days, released vi as shareware.
I don't think that could have happened, since Vi / Ex were derived from and included code from ed and hence were covered by AT&T copyright.
I was working for Onyx Systems at the time vi /ex became available. We were porting Version 7 Unix to a Zilog Z8000 and the disk was a Corvus ShoeBox disk. I was told to download it from Berkeley via good ol' uucp. I did, I compiled, I have used it since. Licenses weren't my issue, as Bob Marsh dealt with those details. This was my first exposure to Unix. Roughly six years later, I was a Product Line Engineering Manger at Fortune Systems. Those were wild and exciting days in Silicon Valley.
Yes, the 1980's were a much more exciting time in the world of computing... IBM had lost it's stranglehold on the marketplace, and Microsoft had not yet achieved one. And in those days, it wasn't unusual for me to work on several different versions of Unix in one day, hell, even 3 different versions of 4.3BSD in one day. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org