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From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
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Subject: Re: NeXT and Multics-bashing
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Date: 12 Feb 90 17:50:21 GMT
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mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>It may be said that Tenex and TOPS-20 are powerful operating systems
>hidden behind a powerless environment, whereas Unix is a powerless
>operating system hidden behind a powerful environment.

Gimme a break.  Unix earned its stripes running on PDP 11/34's, at a
time whine Tenex and Tops were running on humungous (for the time)
36-bit mainframes.  Yes, they had some neat stuff; but when I first
worked on Unix at the relatively late date of 1978 it was *far* from
powerless.

Cheers, Tim Bray, Open Text Systems