Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!jac From: jac@paul.rutgers.edu (J. A. Chandross) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Slandering Intel Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 89 03:29:32 GMT References: <182@mipos3.intel.com> <76700071@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu > And if you wish MIT project MAC had never happened, then why not throw > away all your Berkeley UNIX manuals, since there wouldn't have been > UNIX if it weren't for two guys who had a knee-jerk reaction to Multics. Actually, there were more than 2 guys. And they didn't have a "knee-jerk" reaction to Multix. Au contraire. They *liked* Multics. But when Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics project they were going to lose their comfortable niche. So they consed up a replacement environment. Jonathan A. Chandross Internet: jac@paul.rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac