[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/13/2013 12:01 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> My
> PDP11/45 processor handbook is (C)1973. Of course, at that time, DEC
> couldn't even spell u-n-i-x.


Let's be fair:  That early, almost no one outside the Labs could (and I 
suspect precious could, even within the Labs...)

I was at Rand in 76 and it had had the first 'commercial' license for 
Unix, for only a year or so.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
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