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Subject: Re: C+@ SC+@ (Re: Has C++ had its day?)
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In article <D9t7nt.9Hx@lziss3.lincroftnj.ncr.com>,
Reha Gur <reha@sodium.att.com> wrote:
> As much as I hate to agree with Jim, Unix was free or almost free back in
> 1975 when we first got it.

Almost free isn't the same as free. While the $130 charge was nominal, it
was there.

> AT&T couldn't enter the computer software market
> back then. Of course it was written in assembly and went down every day
> so it was really not worth much.

That must have been 5th edition. 6th edition only had about a thousand lines
of assembly. When I was at Berkeley in 1978 there was still one 5th
edition system... it was just the slightest bit flakey... <g>.

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