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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: MULTICS and the Jargon File
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Date: 3 Dec 90 13:29:45 GMT
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In article <1YfTW4#8MK9Xf8YJtZH970VXl0fFB3R=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> So who'm I supposed to gratify? The pro-MULTICS crowd typified by Rick Smith
> who believe MULTICS has been unjustly shafted by the derogatory references in
> jargon-2.1.5, or the anti-MULTICS people who characterize it as a bloated
> failure, and argue that detestation of it is integral to the tradition I'm
> trying to preserve?

How about adding another appendix about the history of the Jargon file, and
pointing out that the references to Multics are not necessarily fair nor are
they necessarily the opinions of the current editor.

You could also move the old MULTICS notes out to the obsolescent section, and
put new ones in.

> should move to alt.folklore.computers; for those who don't get alt.*, I
> will cross-post to comp.misc.

Perhaps we need a comp.sys.multics? (nooo, it's a joooooke)
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