____/ Mark Kent on Monday 12 November 2007 11:47 : \____
> dapunka <dapunka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On 11 Nov, 22:14, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > ____/ 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-m...
>>>
>>> >> 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.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> Ah, so in your world, everyone has read the same things as you?
>
> I think not...
dapunka makes a good point though. I don't know how I ever missed it. I'll
admit that I have poor knowledge of the UNIX family tree.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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