On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 01:11:52AM +0000, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: > Pretty good talk. Reminds me of the other time I heard Brian (in person) at > Purdue in 1977-78 or so. He opened with two quotes, "The operating system > comes between the user and the hardware" which got a laugh because although > it was from a standard operating system textbook, he didn't mean it that way. > The second was "TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach" (TSO was an > early IBM operating system).
Interesting how a small outfir place like the University of Michigan could do a better job (MTS) of time-sharing on IBM hardware than IBM could. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
