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

[Con Zymaris]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:21:52PM +1100, Clark, Ian C wrote:
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> > [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris
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> > I suggested that Multics was probably the most influential OS 
> > of all time.
> > Can you nominate an alternative?
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> So why not include the OS/360 (common OS running across different
> hardware from the same vendor), Xerox's workstation OS (the desktop

OS/360 has few visible influences nowdays outside mainframes.


> metaphor, GUI and mouse) and network OS (we get Ethernet and the modern
> implementation of Directory Services such as eDirectory and Active

The Xerox Alto was influential primarily for its desktop interface and
hardware input/output, not its underlying OS.

> Directory from it), VMS (favouring a distributed model of computing
> across peers, rather than the traditional server-client relationship). 
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> Even Linux is more directly influenced by Tanenbaum's MINIX than Unix

And what influenced MINIX, pray tell? ;-)

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