After takin' a swig o' grog, Johan Lindquist belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> So anyway, it was like, 16:18 CET Nov 15 2007, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
> Rex Ballard was all like, "Dude,
>>
>> I think it was Dennis Ritchie who said, "If we had known about
>> Multics, we wouldn't have created UNIX".
>
> [..]
>
> I think you're making shit up again, that's what I think.
Indeed.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
The fork operation, essentially as we implemented it, was present in
the GENIE time-sharing system [10]. On a number of points we were
influenced by Multics, which suggested the particular form of the I/O
system calls [11], and both the name of the shell and its general
functions. The notion that the shell should create a process for each
command was also suggested to us by the early design of Multics,
although in that system it was later dropped for efficiency reasons.
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Tux rox!
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