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by Peter H Salus In 1969, UNIX was created at Bell Labs. For decades, the source of the AT&T dialect of UNIX came from the researc hes of workers in department 1127. When the "Baby Bells" split from "Ma Bell," department 1127 survived. But the new reorg at Bell Labs finally breaks up what's left of 1127 enti rely. Theory people will go to one place, systems people to another, I'm told. I'm not sure what happens to those who fall in neither camp. Ther e was no malice, so far as I can tell just an administrative reorg for ced by recent cutbacks and layoffs and departures that left the whole re search area with too many managers and too few researchers. Rob Pike and Dave Presotto and Sean Dorward are at Google. Gerard Holzmann is at NASA/JPL Lab for Reliable Software. To the best of my knowledge, Dennis Ritchie and Howard Trickey remain, en isled. A former employee at 1127 remarked: "My take is that 1127 probably reached Schiavo status when Rob, Presotto , et al. "But it's still sad to see the final demise, both of a particular instit ution and as a further nail in the coffin of the sort of research envir onment Bell Labs once represented." XEROX PARC transmogrifie d into "Palo Alto Research Center Inc."
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