Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:08:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel |
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > > Multics??? [..] way too many persons on this list who know the history of > > > Unix to try this BS. > > > > So, you're saying their nine goals were bullshit? Multics had a lot of > > problems. But it did a lot of ground-breaking. Perhaps you should reply > > to the nine goals, or the general topic of "Enterpriseness," rather than > > merely express your irrelevant hatred for Multics. > > > > Relating some "nine goals of 'Enterprise Computing'" to Multics is > the bullshit. When Multics was being developed, the singular goal > was to make an operating system that worked on DEC Equipment without > having to use DEC software. The emphasis was on trying to make it > work period.
WTF are you smoking? Multics never ran on DEC hardware. Moreover, your ideas about UNIX history ("modified Multics bootloader" bit) are, well, interesting. Porting from GE to PDP-7... <shudder> Besides, the thing had wildly different fs usage model - "everything is mmaped segment" vs. UNIX "everything is stream of characters".
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