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

[Donna Benjamin]

I don't know where Apple's Pro Dos fits in all this 
but I think it might be time to take this thread elsewhere?

;)

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 18:16 +1100, Con Zymaris wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:05:09PM +1100, Clark, Ian C wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > > -----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
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> ...
> 
> > 
> > > 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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