UNIX version 7
Question: What University ’stole’ Version 7 of UNIX before it was released?
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Waterloo
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Answer: University of Waterloo
Dennis Ritchie came to Waterloo to give a talk to the Computer Science Club about the then ’soon-to-be-released’ version 7. For his demos, he dialed up Bell Labs; he was very careful to hide the phone number, however, because he didn’t have a password on his account back then. Everybody was suitably impressed and Ritchie returned to New Jersey. A month later, the Computer Science Club’s long distance phone bill arrived, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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