On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> One historically significant "Enterprise" OS is Multics. It had nine
> major goals. Perhaps we should think about how Linux measures up to
> these 1965 goals for "Enterprise Computing."
>
Multics??? No way. It was abandoned as unusable and part of the
kernel code, basically the boot loader, was modified to become
part of Unix.
You have way too many persons on this list who know the history of
Unix to try this BS.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.0 on an i686 machine (799.54 BogoMips).
"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.
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