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Subject: Why Aegis looks like Unix.
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Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 09:41:51 EDT
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Robert Reed writes:
> ... Or why superficially AEGIS itself looks very much
> like UNIX, with names changed to protect the guilty?

When we first bought Apollos 5 years ago, the scuttlebutt
I heard was that Apollo had gone back to the source of
Unix, namely Multics, to based their OS on.  The reason
that Aegis looks like Unix is the same reason why
humans look like monkeys: they have common ancestors.

Frankly, I think Aegis command names make a lot more
sense than Unix names.  They are more regular, and with
my experience with various computer systems, it was
easier to guess what the command would be than when I 
started with Unix.  Maybe I just think in terms of
creating and deleting things, and changing
their names, rather than making and removing things, 
and moving their names.