Stan replies:
> Cortlandt asks:
>
> > The interesting question is why such a collection never grew up in
the HP
> > 3000 community as freeware as it did in the UNIX world.
[snip various theories]
>
>
> And, sheer numbers.  There's a lot more Unix machines out there than
3000s,
> unfortunately.
>
> --
> Stan Sieler
>

My guess is simply that in Universities, Unix *source* code was
available for a long time and the OS was nearly free. Hard to beat that
temptation, then BSD came along and really got things moving.

Richard Gambrell