Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:20:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read <dread@texas.net> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ember Talent <etalent@bizjournals.com> Subject: Re: What is BSD Message-ID: <XFMail.010503132015.dread@texas.net> In-Reply-To: <20010502140609.B35812@cec.wustl.edu>
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On 02-May-01 Andrew Hesford wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:52:37AM -0700, Ember Talent wrote: <snip> > Back in the days when I was, oh, about -13 years old (yes, that's a > minus sign), funny, I don't feel old. > a man named Dennis Ritchie and some of his cohorts at Bell > Labs decided to build an operating system to run on their PDP-11 PDP-7 > computer. This was called UNICS, as a takeoff of the Honeywell operating > system MULTICS (at least, it runs on Honeywell computers... I can't be > sure who wrote the OS). General Electric, imortalized in the "gecos" field of passwd(5) and the UNICS -> UNIX linage is iffy. <snip remain good stuff from Andrew> Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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