Revolutionary!
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| Author | Content |
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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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