Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:25:59 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel |
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> One historically significant "Enterprise" OS is Multics. It had nine > major goals. Perhaps we should think about how Linux measures up to > these 1965 goals for "Enterprise Computing." >
Multics??? No way. It was abandoned as unusable and part of the kernel code, basically the boot loader, was modified to become part of Unix.
You have way too many persons on this list who know the history of Unix to try this BS.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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