In <[email protected]>, on 02/19/2012
at 08:42 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> said:
>folklore is that *IX (and numerous *IX work-alikes) came from
>simplification of MULTICS.
That's why I spell it EUnix, but they're really fundamentally
different. Multics was built around the concept of a single-level
store and Unix was not. Multics had a PL/I run-time environment built
in. The Multics shell made heavy use of active functions while the
Bourn shell was oriented to filters.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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