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In article <1992Oct29.004133.9462@DIALix.oz.au> abcc@DIALix.oz.au (Adrian Booth Computing Consultants) writes:
>My question stems from an interesting meeting I had yesterday. I had a 
>meeting with <someone> trying to sell me <something> (always a bad way to
>start a meeting). Anyway, he started by demonstrating his UNIX background.
>A summary of his spiel is:
>
>	- He personally knows Bill Joy
>	- In fact, when Bill Joy & Co. wanted to add VM capabilities to
>		System 7, Bill came out to Oz
>	- Bill visited UTS and RMIT
>	- The people at RMIT (including this <someone>) - who had "worked out 
>		the VM algorithms but not quite implemented them yet" - 
>		told Bill Joy how to add VM to System 7
>	- Bill Joy then returned to UCB, added VM using the info he got from
>		RMIT, and "became God"
>	- So we can all thank the people at RMIT for BSD UNIX, and Bill Joy
>		can thank RMIT for making him what he is today
>
>Can any of you knowledgeable types comment on the accuracy of the above?

This is clearly bullshit, as everyone knows Bill Joy never listens to
anyone...

Seriously, to the best of my knowledge, Bill didn't come to Australia till
some time in the early eighties after Sun was formed, and BSD was
already up to 4.1C and had at least rudimentary VM features. Any such visit
would have had to have been in the late seventies, when wnj was still a poor
Uni student. Hardly a definitive answer though.
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