Tom Lyon ✅
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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967.
Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter)
#fedi22 #ComputerHistory #SunMicrosystems #UNIX
I'm celebrating my 50th year of using UNIX!
Sometime in spring of '75, my friend Peter (sysadmin for the PDP-11/45) came around shouting "UNIX is Here! UNIX is Here!"
I asked "What's a UNIX?" and he showed me the 1974 CACM article about UNIX.
Signatures of #SunMicrosystems employees hired in the first year - until Feb. 1983. #Suntember
