____/ Matt on Sunday 11 November 2007 12:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> MIT releases the sources of MULTICS, the father of UNIX!
>>
>> ,----[ 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.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.kirps.com/web/main/_blog/all/mit-releases-the-sources-of-multics-the-father-of-unix.shtml
>
> Not clear why you didn't mention 'MULTICS' in the subject line of your post.
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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