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-[04] WHAT ARE YOUR POLICIES?
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+[03] WHAT IS THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM?
+     UNIX originated in 1969 when Ken Thompson, facinated with the game
+     Space Travel, decided it would be easier to write an operating
+     system for the DEC PDP-7 to run his game rather than to write a
+     PDP-7 cross compiler on the lab's GE-645.  UNIX inhereted features
+     from MULTiplexed Information and Computer System (MULTICS), a project
+     that Bell Labs, General Electric and RAND were involved in.  However,
+     Ken never bothered to include more important features of MULTICS.
+     After all, UNIX was just for a game.  But, UNIX became popular in the
+     labs and soon was given away to Universites.  The system was never
+     standardized though its name suggested UNIformity.  The west coast was
+     given the UNIX source code and soon Berkeley UNIX (BSD) was born.
+     SYSTEM 5 and BSD have a distinct flavor which sets them apart.  Many
+     view SYSTEM 5 hackers as being conservative while BSD hackers are
+     seen as being liberal.
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-**limitations and policy**
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-The SDF Public Access UNIX System, a 501(c)7 non-profit corporation, reserves the right to deny access to anyone regardless if the user has made a donation or paid membership dues.  If a user's activities are interferring with another user or users (on this system or on another) the user in question will have their account access limited or possibly removed.  Spamming of any sort is not permitted and would result in account removal.  Illegal activities that actively involve SDF (id est, using SDF to run crack or for guessing passwords and/or trading copyrighted work) will most likely result in account removal.
-The SDF Public Access UNIX System makes no guarantees in the reliability or preservation of account accessibility, email received, files uploaded or created by online editing or compilation.  That being said, data loss should only occur during a catastrophic hardware
-failure where critical files would be restored from daily tape backups.
-Members of the SDF Public Access UNIX System are expected to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner when using our facilities.
-Lifetime ARPA membership is based on the lifetime of SDF, not of the user and is non-transferable.  SDF has existed since 1987 and with your support maybe it just might out live you. ;-)
-Any illegal activities which includes, but certainly isn't limited to spamming, portflooding, portscanning, unauthorised connections to remote hosts and any sort of scam can really not be tolerated here. Why? Because there are many here on this system that can suffer from
-this sort of abuse. If you want to use SDF, you really have to care about this system and the people here.  If you don't want to care, then you really shouldn't use this resource.
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