Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:57:39 -0500 | From | David Relson <> | Subject | Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel |
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At 11:41 AM 11/14/00, 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.
DEC? Try GE, specifically the GE-645 (if my memory hasn't lost any bits).
Speaking of Multics, the last Multics system was just recently decomissioned. I think 35 years is a very impressive lifetime for a computer system. Linux, now at age 9, only has 26 years to go.
David
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