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on 08/18/2006
at 07:37 AM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>There are some missing ones that probably belong in (or at least
>near) the top 12. Grace Hopper's A-0 or FORTRAN probably ought to
>figure somewhere.
I'd probably put IPL-V and LISP ahead of those; possibly FACT as well.
Also macro assemblers, SNOBOL and programmable CLI's.
>There's nothing on the list that directly addresses wordsmithing,
>such as word processing or publishing. Electric Pencil? Wordstar?
>WordPerfect? Aldus Pagemaker? Quark? Photoshop? TeX?
Definitely TeX, Metafont and LaTeX. Possibly some of the stuff from
Xerox PARC.
>The approach to file handling (hierarchical slash
>paths) and I/O (everything-as-file /dev/whatever) is at least nice.
The nice parts were copied from Multics.
>I wonder if one of the timesharing systems should get mention, like
>Dartmouth's, Michigan's (MTS), McGill's (MUSIC), or something else.
Surely CTSS and Multics.
>We've really got to have z/VM on the list.
CP/67.
>Digital Research's CP/M probably deserves a greatness nomination as
>the first general purpose, mass market microcomputer operating
>system.
Wasn't it a bad copy of RT-11?
>If Microsoft belongs on the list I think it should get on the list
>for, oddly enough, BASIC.
Weren't there other early BASIC compiler/interpreter systems with
small footprints?
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