UN*X License Plates

[Frederick M. Avolio]

In article <20658 at styx.UUCP>, fair at styx.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> the San Diego UNICOM Conference in January 1983 (back in the gude old
> days when nobody officially supported UNIX), someone working in DEC UEG
> (was it you, Armando?) stood before the assembled UNIX hackers present
> and announced that DEC had finally purchased UNIX licenses

It was that *finally* DEC was providing UNIX(r) licenses.  And
they were modelled after aps's real, live, NH plates.  Distinctive.
All the better for Merimack's finest to spot him speeding.  (Or was
that only on DEC grounds?)
-- 
Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center
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