Rex Ballard wrote:
> On Nov 11, 8:16 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> I never heard about MULTICS before, so I was (perhaps wrongly) assuming
>> that saying "the father of UNIX"--as in the headline of the cited blog
>> item--would be OK.
>
> I think it was Dennis Ritchie who said, "If we had known about
> Multics, we wouldn't have created UNIX".
>
> Multics was one of the first multi-user multi-tasking operating
> systems to be used on minicomputers such as the PDP series computers.
> When AT&T donated UNIX V6 to about a hundred universities and colleges
> and universities, some of the first enhancements were attempts to
> emulate features that were available on Multics, most of these
> features were introduced in the BSD versions of Unix.
>
> Multics was not open source, so the college students at the
> Universities had to figure out how to create these features knowing
> nothing other than the description of how the feature worked on
> Multics. It might be interesting to see how different the
> implementations were.
>
That is *not* *at* *all* the way it happened
--
Only two things are infinite,
the Universe and Stupidity.
And I'm not quite sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
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