Sorry, I know it's off-topic *and* it's dead, but it's not all *that*
off-topic.
As I said, I rather liked AmigaDOS; it's connection with Unix is that it
was based on the BCPL language, which was a sibling of the C language on
which Unix was based, both being decendents of B.
And Multics is sort of Unix's grand-uncle; Unix was "Multics without
balls." Multics made *everything* into memory, including the file
system; Unix made *everything* into files, including devices and even
memory (/dev/kmem), though of memory wasn't usually accessed that way.
The /proc file system is very much in the original spirit of Unix,
though of course a lot of what we typically use these days (like X) is
not particularly (though the concept of breaking out server, client,
window manager, and desktop certainly is).
Multics inspired Unix with a combination of admiration and revulsion by
Kernighan and Pike (?); admiration for the consistency and elegance and
revulsion at the size, complexity, and resource requirements.
The first Unix system I used supported 16 simultaneous users on a single
CPU with 128K (which was the largest machine on which Unix ran at the
time--a PDD 11/70 with split I&D). Of course even *vi* had been
disabled as being too resource intensive . . .
Sorry for the philophical/historical interlude. And now back to your
regularly scheduled program.
Vic wrote:
>
> i dont remember seeing multics in operation, but
> i have heard well of it. I remember unix when I was
> growing up in the 70's.
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Deryk Barker mewed:
> > Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > >
> > > AmigaDOS was the perfect operating system, but Unix/Linux is a close
> > > second . . .
> >
> > Sorry folks, but Multics was the perfect OS. All others are
> > imitations.
> >
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