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Unix

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Unix

In 1978, a pharmaceuticals company had a PDP-11 which was a Unix machine. Sarah Swan sneaked a malicious program onto the machine and disguised it as the system's "list files" command. (PROSE: Blue Box [+]Loading...{"chapt":"10 Four","1":"Blue Box (novel)"}) The mainframe at the TLA building in 1981 also ran Unix, (PROSE: Blue Box [+]Loading...{"chapt":"30 One","1":"Blue Box (novel)"}) as did Sarah Swan's computer at her home. (PROSE: Blue Box [+]Loading...{"chapt":"70 Four","1":"Blue Box (novel)"})

Blue Box listed "Unix" among the "arcane tongues" of the machines that Bob Salmon spent his teenage years programming, along with VMS and Pascal. (PROSE: Blue Box [+]Loading...{"chapt":"10 Three","1":"Blue Box (novel)"})

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