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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: PRIMOS: a question really
Message-ID: <3217@eos.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 19:23:32 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Er? what's a major operating system?
What constitutes a major operating system? Shear numbers? MS/DOS hands down
right?
Significant features? user interfaces: (large numbers: MacOS?)
					(small numbers: Pilot/Cedar, most
					probably haven't heard or seen?)
			communcations: Unix(tm): pipes and TCP?
			security: Multics? CTSS?  or ITS? ;)
Economic significance? MVS/VS2, EXEC*1100? Pay checks and tax refunds? 8)
Seeming Obscurity?			PickOS? ;)
Just curious.

Another gross generalization from

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