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Story: Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OSTotal Replies: 2
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jezuch

Jun 05, 2009
1:54 AM EDT
Quoting:a revolutionary OS


*chuckle*

I'm in the midst of reading "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook", hence the chuckle :)
hkwint

Jun 05, 2009
12:15 PM EDT 		As far as I understood it wasn't revolutionary at all, because all the ideas already existed in the Multics project.

However, while the people at Multics were too busy writing spec-papers and adding error-checking to their software, the people of Bell did a 'quick hack'; left all error-checking out and called it UNICS.

ED: OK, linking files was revolutionary. It was covered in Unics in the early 70's and even nowadays is not even found in Windows!
jezuch

Jun 06, 2009
3:08 PM EDT 		Well, one could say that in a similar way Windows was revolutionary... Except that in this case the competition wasn't sitting forever in the labs.

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