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From: ddb@starfire.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.arch
Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment (Bechtolsheim patent) (SUID Patent)
Message-ID: <279@starfire.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 02:42:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 02:42:18 1986
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Summary: correcting tops-10 vs Unix chronology

In article <1611@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> 
> Would you people all referencing systems which had/have SUID-ish
> features "way back in 1976" note that UNIX and SUID pre-dates 1976*,
> 
> For example, someone mentioned a similar feature in TOPS-10, UNIX
> completely predates TOPS-10 as far as I know tho not it's predecessor
> TENEX, the person didn't mention whether this feature was in TENEX.
> Just because TOPS-10 got old and died doesn't mean its older than UNIX.

TENEX was derived from tops-10, not the other way around.  Tops-20 was
derived from Tenex.  Unix was developed partly because they couldn't get
Bell to buy them a pdp-10 to play with (read the standard early unix
history article), so I believe that tops-10 predates unix significantly.

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