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

[Clark, Ian C]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris
> 
> I suggested that Multics was probably the most influential OS 
> of all time.
> Can you nominate an alternative?

Why one? It's Friday afternoon with a big weekend of sport coming up
...you'd nominate different AFL players for their influences: Barassi
for reinterpreting the modern ruck-rover position, Polly Farmer for
angled ruck tap outs, Ted Whitten for the flickpass, Dyer for
popularizing the drop punt ...

So why not include the OS/360 (common OS running across different
hardware from the same vendor), Xerox's workstation OS (the desktop
metaphor, GUI and mouse) and network OS (we get Ethernet and the modern
implementation of Directory Services such as eDirectory and Active
Directory from it), VMS (favouring a distributed model of computing
across peers, rather than the traditional server-client relationship). 

Even Linux is more directly influenced by Tanenbaum's MINIX than Unix
itself (Sunday's coming up - a bit like the influence of modern
Christianity has been pointed out to be due more to St Paul's work than
that of Jesus of Nazareth). Please, no Danish cartoon references!   ;-)

Cheers,
Clarky


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