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Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS
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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!
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!
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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*chuckle*
I'm in the midst of reading "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook", hence the chuckle :)