On 2002-08-07 17:23, "Alex Nonnemacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 03:24 , Alan Sargent wrote: > >> Unix was built under the aegis of AT&T's Bell Labs, not a college, by >> Ken >> Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, starting from mid 1969, and started to be >> used >> outside the company in 1973. > > As I understand it, it was the orphaned kid brother of a larger project > for an OS called "Multics," which Bell Labs scrapped. Unix is a play on > that title. Correct. UNICS was a simpler version of MULTICS, a multi-user system that never really got anywhere. Strangely, UNICS was intended as a small single-user system. It was only after it was rewritten entirely in C that it became UNIX. ,xtG .tsooJ -- Joost van de Griek http://www.jvdg.net/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
