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Episode 99 - The Berkeley Software Distribution

Advent of Computing

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UNIX - The Problem With AT&T

Bell had a legal mandate that UNIX had to be distributed. Bell Telephone Company and, by extension, their labs had this problem with creating monopolies. The final arrangement was that the computer science, mathematics, and statistics departments would pull resources and get a brand new PDP-11.

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