Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:15:10 -0800 (PST) | From | <> | 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: > > > 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." > > > 2 > 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.
Perhaps this is a call for forking off linux into other project, It is not unreasonable, if goals of one do not match with the other. =) However the guy said that goals are applicable to linux, he did not say rewrite linux to be multics... Pavel.
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