On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > Multics??? [..] way too many persons on this list who know the history of > > Unix to try this BS. > > So, you're saying their nine goals were bullshit? Multics had a lot of > problems. But it did a lot of ground-breaking. Perhaps you should reply > to the nine goals, or the general topic of "Enterpriseness," rather than > merely express your irrelevant hatred for Multics. > Relating some "nine goals of 'Enterprise Computing'" to Multics is the bullshit. When Multics was being developed, the singular goal was to make an operating system that worked on DEC Equipment without having to use DEC software. The emphasis was on trying to make it work period. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.0 on an i686 machine (799.54 BogoMips). "Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation obtained from the Micro$oft help desk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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