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

[Con Zymaris]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:05:09PM +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
> > Further, Multics'immediate predecessor was a direct influence 
> > on VMS, which in turn was a major influence on Windows NT.
> > 
> > more here:
> >  http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch03s02.html
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> But this says it all, Con! By this diagram, Multics is only influential
> on Unix, and Unix clones like Linux.


But what, dear Ian, exists nowdays beyond Unix-like platforms and Windows, 
which as I said, also had it's pedigree in Multics' prefecessor?

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> > And IPX/SPX is now essentially dead. 
> 
> You can't have it both ways, Con. Multics is dead too! They work so well

But Multics' _influence_ Ian, it's _influence_ is alive and well. ;-)


> > But TCP/IP, which came from the same groups which hubbed 
> > around the creation of Multics and DARPA and Unix, reigns 
> > supreme. Which had more influence?
> 
> TCP/IP was never developed on Multics. It was first developed on VAX

I never said it was. 

If you read what I said, TCP/IP was created by the same groups who hubbed
around the Multics/DARPA/Unix development teams, namely from 1968 through
to 1981.

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