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

[Con Zymaris]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:43:56PM +1100, Clark, Ian C wrote:
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> > [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris 
> > Specifically, Multics:
> > 
> >  http://www.multicians.org/
> >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
> > 
> > Multics was the 'idea' mother of most modern OSes.
> 
> I think Multics fans can say what they like, Con, but since you've
> chosen Wikipedia as an authority on the subject, Multics doesn't even
> rate a mention:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_operating_systems , and there
> are so many myths about it, the first website you've given has in fact
> devoted a page to these claims:  http://www.multicians.org/myths.html
> 
> VMS, OS400 and Unix didn't 'invent' preemptive tasking, protected memory

No one said that these OSes did invent these things. 

I suggested that Multics was probably the most influential OS of all time.

Can you nominate an alternative?


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