On 2007-11-15, Johan Lindquist <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> So anyway, it was like, 16:18 CET Nov 15 2007, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
> Rex Ballard was all like, "Dude,
>> 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".
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> [..]
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> I think you're making shit up again, that's what I think.
Looks like it:
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~acc/docs/unix-Part_I.html
When Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and their "Bell Laboratories
colleagues," writes Comer, "later began work on their own
implementation of a Multics-like time-sharing system, they drew
heavily from the Multics experience. So, despite popular myth, UNIX
was not an accidental discovery at all -- it evolved directly from
experiences with academic research." (Ibid., pg. 41-42)
By 1969, however, AT&T made a decision to withdraw from the project.
Describing that period, Dennis Ritchie, another of the inventors of
unix at Bell Labs writes, "By 1969, Bell Labs management, and even
the researchers came to believe that the promises of Multics could
be fulfilled only too late and too expensively." (from Dennis
Ritchie, "The Development of the C Language," ACM, presented at
Second History of Programming Languages conference, Cambridge, Mass,
April 1993, pg. 1)
Looks to me like he wasn't the only one he had "known about Multics" at
the time, either.
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