Robert Funnell wrote:
Unix, not Linux, was born in 1971.
Linus Torvalds was about 2 years old at the time.
According to http://www.computerhope.com/history/unix.htm
Unix was started 'in order to play space travel'.
Not exactly. In 1969, Ken Thompson was working on "...a serious
astronomical simulation program..." called Space Travel when a couple of
BTL scientists began kicking around the idea of "...keeping the files
out of each other's hair..." and they came up with a file system which
eventually evolved into an operating system that was called "UNIplexed
Information and Computing Service,... a pun on 'emasculated Multics'..."
This from the 1994 book by Peter H Salus, "A Quarter Century of UNIX".
--
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance,
nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire...
-- Aristotle
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