<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">As I recall, a deadline played a crucial role as well. Dudes in garages don’t have deadlines.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 5, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Dan Cross <<a href="mailto:crossd@gmail.com" class="">crossd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 10:49 AM Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net" class="">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 7/4/2018 12:16 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:<br class="">
> You mean the guy who copied Unix, a creation of America’s 11th largest <br class="">
> company at the time?<br class="">
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and yet, the specifics of who did what and with what, then, describes a <br class="">
classic garage activity.<br class=""></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would describe it more as "skunkworks" than garage.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
the only difference worth noting is that the big company was paying <br class="">
their salaries. in terms of critical components to the event, that <br class="">
point doesn't impress me.</blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken Thompson wrote the first "Unices" kernel on a cast-off PDP-7. While perhaps antiquated for 1969, is that really something that would have been accessible to an individual? 1st Edition was on a PDP-11/20; almost certainly out of the reach of individuals in the early 1970s. And the fact that they were getting *paid* to work on this is not a small point.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - Dan C.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"></div>
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