On 11 Nov, 22:14, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> > ____/ Matt on Sunday 11 November 2007 12:59 : \____
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> >> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >>> MIT releases the sources of MULTICS, the father of UNIX!
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> >>> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>> | This is extraordinary news for all nerds, computer scientists and the Open
> >>> | Source community: the source code of the MULTICS operating system
> >>> | (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the father of UNIX and
> >>> | all modern OSes, has finally been opened.
> >>> `----
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> >http://www.kirps.com/web/main/_blog/all/mit-releases-the-sources-of-m...
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> >> Not clear why you didn't mention 'MULTICS' in the subject line of your post.
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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.
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> You took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to say "most
> people probably haven't heard of multics, so it would be a sh1t
> headline."
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> My case proven, I think.
I'm not much of a geek, but I know what MULTICS was, in relation to
UNIX. Hell, most any history of the Free Software movement will go
through the basics: At Bell Labs, there was MULTICS, then UNIX...
which then leads by different paths to BSD (Thompson), GNU (Stallman)
and Linux (Torvalds). Even Wikipedia tells it that way, methinks.
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