on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:52:11AM -0500, Jim Choate (ravage@einstein.ssz.com) wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:53:35PM -0500, Jim Choate (ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com) wrote:
This entire view misses the(!) one most important component of Unix's (and Linux's) success, they were first.
Not hardly.
Yes, very particularly in fact.
I wasn't keeping notes when K&R were designing their gaming platform, but history seems to recall OS/360, Multics, TICO, ITS, VMS. A bit of quick Googling suggests the PDP-7 had its own native operating system (the PDP-11 certainly did), certainly more than what a couple of guys hanging around a broom closet could hammer out in a few days.
Being 'first' doesn't imply they were 'alone'. You misrepresent reality to your own end.
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