Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@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-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.
>
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.
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