Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Op Environment vs Op System (was: NeXT not revolutionary enough?)
Message-ID: <1988Nov11.185201.22771@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <471@wucs1.wustl.edu> <48@necbsd.NEC.COM> <26446@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4833@polya.Stanford.EDU> <145@avsd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 88 18:52:01 GMT

In article <145@avsd.UUCP> childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
>>UNIX is the first operating system of commerical import to distinguish
>>between the operating system and the [user] environment.
>
>I'm not sure that's precisely true. I've been aware of the difference between
>the OS and the user interface ever since I first studied the internals of
>CP/M, back in the late Seventies.

Don't forget that Unix dates to the early 70s, well before CP/M.
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