[ih] Fwd: Some Berkeley Unix history - too many PHDs per packet

[Greg Skinner]

Forwarded for Barbara

> On Friday, March 8, 2024 at 01:34:11 PM PST, Barbara Denny <b_a_denny at yahoo.com> wrote: 
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> Hope the list doesn't get too many copies of this message as I try various ways.  I am having trouble again with my posts.  It is interesting I don't seem to have a problem with a different mailing list on Google groups.   I am trimming the original message too.  
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> Didn't you only need a license if you wanted source code?   I  remember having to wait quite some time for all that to happen when I was at SRI. I was able to figure a bug once we got the code.  We made a guess about header processing that wasn't right since we didn't know about the internals. I will admit my memory feels foggy on this.
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> barbara
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> On Friday, March 8, 2024 at 02:55:56 AM PST, Dave Taht via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote: 
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> From john nagle here, a good article, and a long and enjoyable thread:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39630457
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> Ford Aerospace was one of the first commercial sites of BSD Unix. The
> licensing was complicated. We had to buy Unix 32V from AT&T first.
> That transaction got on the path for major corporate documents. AT&T
> and Ford Motor had a cross-licensing agreement. Eventually, I got a
> no-cost license agreement embossed with the corporate seals of both
> the Ford Motor Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph
> Corporation. Made a copy and taped it onto a VAX. Then I drove up to
> Berkeley from Palo Alto and Bill Joy gave me a BSD tape.
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