On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:09:22 -0600 Philip Stortz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> now it is loosely based
> on english, which is an old language, and it is based on unix, which is
> a very old but likely the first well thought out operating system
i'm going to have to register an objection here.
largely forgotten today, multics and tenex/tops-20 are two earlier OS
systems that were both very well designed. un*x, like tenex/tops-20, was
spiritually a derivative of multics. multics had security features that
exceeded those of most operating systems that have come since then.
richard
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