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From: darragh@maths.tcd.ie (Darragh J. Delany)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.internals,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 5 of 6
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.173546.25184@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 10 Dec 90 17:35:46 GMT
References: <1YbxGQ#2fbT353y6xKD8DT83C4bFDpV=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <1990Nov30.172512.5282@sctc.com> <PCG.90Dec5162259@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk>
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In article <PCG.90Dec5162259@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
}On 30 Nov 90 17:25:12 GMT, smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) said:
}smith> A Unix hacker can't sneer at Multics. It's like sneering at your
}smith> grandad.  Sure he's a doddering wreck, but he created some pretty
}smith> fine stuff that we can still be proud of. You, for example.
}If only! A very good argument can be made that Multics is a descendant
}of Unix! You can consider Multics the grandchild of Unix. 

If I remember rightly the very name Unix was a pun on Multics
which was the epitomy of what an efficient operating system
should not have been.

Darragh.