Re:AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (1982)
by JKCalhoun on Saturday August 28, 2021 @10:40AM
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Yeah, I don't know. That struck me as well.
Because I am a closet luddite I'm going to suggest that they were unconcerned about a notification, text, call, or email interrupting them.
They knew the news was not going to arrive until the next morning (in rolled up paper form in their driveway), that if there were a bomb explosion or plane crash somewhere in the world they would hear about it in due time, they would go home soon and be disconnected from university/work and would crack open the book they had set down the evening before....
Because I am a closet luddite I'm going to suggest that they were unconcerned about a notification, text, call, or email interrupting them.
They knew the news was not going to arrive until the next morning (in rolled up paper form in their driveway), that if there were a bomb explosion or plane crash somewhere in the world they would hear about it in due time, they would go home soon and be disconnected from university/work and would crack open the book they had set down the evening before....