Re: Derivative effects.
Thus spake Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com):
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:21:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:43:56PM -0800, Day Brown wrote:
> > > > Linux comes from Unix, which was designed for mainframes.
> > > > windows comes from dos, which was designed for personal desktops.
> > >
> > > Well technically Unix was designed for mid-sized computers...
> >
> > And wasn't DOS designed for the workstation?
>
> Nope, Dos was for 16 bit PCs. It was like Unix's under-achieving relative :)
> 8.3 filenames, single-tasking, crappy shell,...
And what nobody has mentioned is that Unix was derived from
Multics. Indeed, the original name was "Unics", an even more obvious
pun, but that was felt to be alittle too close.
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