[H-GEN] BBC News: 40 years of Unix

[gavin duley]

On 20 Aug 2009, at 21:44, Benjamin Fowler wrote:

> BBC News is running a front page story about how Unix turns 40 this  
> month.

Hurray! Is there a cake?

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8205976.stm
>
> I think it's pretty amazing to see the 40th birthday of Unix get  
> such high-profile exposure...


Yes. It'd be nice if it meant I could avoid those conversations where  
you have to explain that UNIX is an operating system. And then what an  
operating system is.

gavin,

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what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
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Gavin Duley
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