Most Universities never understood this & stuck to either UCB or pure AT&T variants (BSD & AT&T Sys III & Sys V).

Now with this, I disagree. AT&T III was utterly unsuitable for business use. AT&T 4 was pure shit for business use.

Berkley 4.2 was, perhaps, the first one that could be used for real business. I know, I was in a business that used a Dec Vax with BSD 4.2. The problem (in business terms at the time) was that Dec had no interest in selling systems with Unix, it wanted to sell systems with VMS.

They (er, the business I was with) finally had to abandon Digital for HP, IBM, Unisys, Encore, or anyone else that could (maybe) support them. Fuck Digital and the spaded horse they clumped in on.

Perhaps that's why I'm so irritated at the HP-Compaq merger. Ride another horse to safety, Compaq-aka-Digital, you and HP are in deep doo-doo.