In <[email protected]>, on 12/20/2010
at 02:35 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> said:
>note that folklore is that unix was "simplified" version of multics
In the sense that a canoe is a simplified version of a tug boat. The
initial hardware for Unix did not have segmentation; dynamic linking
and the single level store were the heart and soul of Multics.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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