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Aucbvax.2617 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Aug 11 08:49:33 1981 BLT (~) and EUNUCH on large machines >From woods@LL-ASG Tue Aug 11 08:34:05 1981 In that one of Western Electric's releases of UNIX was entitled the "Programmer's Work Bench", it is not entirely unreasonable to assume that Western Electric (or more precisely the designers of UNIX) had some sort of philosophy in mind (the fact all of the documents in The Appropriate BSTJ* mention how UNIX is a programming environment with just enough operating system underneath it to make it work is also a good hint).

-John Woods (woods at ll-asg)

*Bell Systems Technical Journal, July-August 1978, Vol. 57 No. 6, Part 2

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