Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

[Deryk Barker <dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca>]

Thus spake Lloyd Zusman (ljz@asfast.com):
...
> Linux is a version of Unix that first came out in the mid-1990's.
> So by now, it's part of the nearly 30-year evolution of the original
> Unix.

I think it's worth pointing out that the "original" unix was very
seriously based on (concepts of) the Multics operating system. Even
the original spelling (Unics) was a punning reference.

Richie and Thompson both worked on the Multics project while Bell Labs
was still part of it (they withdrew in 1969). The system began
development in 1965, went live in 1969 and the last system was shut
off in October 2000...

There's much more information on the greatest OS ever at 
	http://www.multicians.org/
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