The Last Farkle

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 2, 2007 10:06 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By John maddog Hall
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In the spring of 1983 I went to work for Digital Equipment Corporation. At that time Digital was mostly providing support for different flavors of Unix on their PDP-11 and VAX lines of computers for the telephone company and universities that were using them. However, a decision had been made to make and release a binary-only version of the Unix operating system so commercial customers could get it without having to pay the very high source-code license fee that AT&T required of them.

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