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tntn on June 6, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beware of strncpy and strncat

The price may have been symbolic for universities, but AT&T licensed Unix commercially for many tens of thousands of dollars.

pjmlp on June 6, 2018 [–]

Learn the history of UNIX, that was almost a decade later, which was when they decided to sue BSD.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/11/16/why-att-licensed-u...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....

scruffyherder on June 7, 2018 | [–]

Indeed, it was quite fun to see that in order to bootstrap Research Unix v8, you needed 4.1BSD

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/03/30/research-unix-...

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