Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Pj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> I remember when Caterpillar got their first main-frame in the early
> 60's. I don't remember if it was fed *key punch* cards or not, but a
> friend programed it to play chess. I have no idea about the OS.. maybe
> some form of UNIX.

Not in the early 60s it wasn't. Multics went live in 1969 and Unix
wasn't begun until bell Labs pulled out of the project, later that
year IIRC.


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