[Technical] Notebooks for New Staff - DET needs to help

[Jim Maunder]

At 01:26 PM 24/02/2006, you wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:27:58PM +1100, Clark, Ian C wrote:
>
>...
>
> >
> > I think it's true to say that Frank Soltis' System38/AS400, Cutler's
> > RSX/VMS/NT and Thompson/Richie's UNIX were all written taking into
> > account the principles of 1960s academic OS design.
>
>Specifically, Multics:
>
>  http://www.multicians.org/
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
>
>Multics was the 'idea' mother of most modern OSes. The joke is that Unix
>(formerly Unics) is 'just one of what Multics was many of.'

etc etc.

Since it's Friday arvo lets break off this tangent and get back to 
the original topic - ie a PC vs Mac war. >:-}

rgds
Jim


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