In article <[log in to unmask]>, Steve Dirickson b894 WestWin
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><<... this year's Automation Hall of Fame Winners.
>...
>Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson: Developers of the UNIX operating
>system. This system, which has been a major force in engineering and
>computer-aided design, was first created out of an earlier system that
>had been developed at General Electric, with assistance from AT&T and
>others. UNIX is a very robust operating system with a tight code
>structure, few commands, and a simple structured architecture.  Written
>in C, it required creating a new programming language.  It can be moved
>from system to system without being recompiled."
>
>Comments, anyone?>>
>
>Not that you can print....

I have my "Unix Barf Bag" installed within quick reach--just for
use in situations like this.  In case some of you have not yet
acquired your own copy, the book purchase includes this valuable
accessory in the deal.  A caption below a picture of an obviously
nauseated "user" states: "Practically in a bag by itself".  The
"user" appears to be trying to figure-out how to unfreeze his
'X' terminal by reading some arcane UNIX "documentation".

The only other printable thought that I have would be --
"What would Herb Grosch say about this" (not printable I'll bet).
I would guess something like: " &^$#@!*(^%$#*&$#?":*&^%|\! ".  *
In case some of you missed working with G.E. operating systems
of the late '60s, '70s, and into the '80s, any of them were
far more rubust and useful than any flavor of UNIX that I have
seen.  This would include MARK I/II/III, GCOS, and MULTICS.
G.E., lead by it's Computer Systems R&D director Herb Grosch,
partnered with Dartmouth, MIT, and others to create reliable
and useful timeshare/batch systems for us to use when PCs were
unknown and minicomputers were just getting of the ground. The
only minicomputer system that I found in the mid '70s which
could (and did!) replace the G.E. systems at my company was
the HP-3000 running MPE.  As some of you might recall, the '3000
was marketed as a "Mini-Mainframe" in those exciting days.  Of
course UNIX (on DEC computers) was also available in the '70s,
but it was widely regarded as a hoax by anyone contemplating any
serious commercial usage (it still is as far as I'm concerned).

Winston K.

* FYI, this is the UNIX command to reset a frozen 'X' terminal.