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From: violence@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Violence)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: PRIMOS: a question really
Message-ID: <502@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 17 Apr 89 01:48:54 GMT
References: <480@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <3217@eos.UUCP>
Reply-To: violence@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Violence)
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In article <3217@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>Er? what's a major operating system?
>What constitutes a major operating system? Shear numbers? MS/DOS hands down
>right?

By 'major operating system' I was intending commonly used (mainstream)
mainframe operating systems, not PC operating systems.

>                        security: Multics? CTSS?  or ITS? ;)

It's good that you didn't place UNIX in the 'security' bracket, as it sure
doesn't fit there.  UNIX, although a nice programming environment, is a bunch
of security loopholes masquerading around as an operating system. :-)

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