The vanity of human wishes
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Doug McIlroy:
Less well known is how Unix made it into the head office of AT&T. It
seems that the CEO, Charlie Brown, did not like to be seen wearing
glasses when he read speeches. Somehow his PR assistant learned of the
CAT phototypesetter in the Unix lab and asked whether it might be
possible to use it to produce scripts in large type.
Steve Johnson:
[...] the speech was finished so close to the time of delivery that a
helicopter was sent to land on the lawn at Bell Labs to pick up the
large-print version so it would get to the CEO in time...
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Authors: ag