Deryk Barker wrote:
> The only thing I'd like to add to your excellent exegesis is that many
> Unix ideas derived from Multics. <<Symbolic link discussion elided>>
Oh, never to forget or ignore that contribution. Multics was the origin
of many of the concepts that have made Unix a viable OS. (Not to mention
the origin of the name--despite the fact that BTL, K&R, and Thompson have
all decided not to admit in public just *what* Unix __really__ meant.)
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