Re: Derivative effects.
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.
No. The original work on UNIX was done on a PDP 7, not a main frame.
Its overall design was largely fixed before main frames gained the level
of power that is today available in a desk top PC.
Windows comes from early work on GUI done a Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC). The trail of stealing ideas is too complicated to review
here.
The rest of this article is somewhat flawed by ignorance of history.
> [snip]
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Paul E Condon
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