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Re: Australian input into BSD UNIX?

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From: Chris Maltby
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 00:34
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In <1992Oct29.004133.9462@DIALix.oz.au> abcc@DIALix.oz.au (Adrian Booth Computing Consultants) writes:

[Bill Joy achieves god status through RMIT story deprecated]

>Can any of you knowledgeable types comment on the accuracy of the above?

Doesn't sound like it to me. About the only visit of wnj to Australia
that I can recall from that time period was to an AUUG conference I
organised at Sydney University, and he was with Sun by then. He'd never
been to Australia before, as he was delayed by a lack of an Australian
visa (or a passport?). Really screwed up my speaker slots.

Finally, people who subscribe to the "wnj is god" theory are a bit
suspect anyway. If you wanted to put that mantle onto anyone, you
could perhaps select some more worthy targets, especially ones whose
PR machine is not so virulent.

Chris - keeper of the sacred scrolls.
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From: chris@suite.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby)
Subject: Re: Australian input into BSD UNIX?
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Date: 30 Oct 92 00:34:14 GMT
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