The Annual Radio Shack Reminiscence Thread

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:50:40PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> I first saw Xenix in late 1982 when I was managing the RSCC in the
> Congressional Plaza shopping center in Rockville Maryland when my CSR Jeff
> (I forget his last name) came back from training in Fort Worth.  I borrowed
> his manuals for a weekend, finding that here, at last, was a real Operating
> System (I had 12 years in mainframes, mostly Burroughs MCP, before going to
> work for Radio Shack in 1980).  Jeff was amazed that I understood it, and
> then I got Thompson's book on Unix (the blue one that was probably the only
> Unix book available at the time), and learned Xenix by reading that and
> digging through system scripts.

Ok; everyone else chime in here.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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