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Thanks! This is a really useful source for computer science history, I was just thinking to myself that I keep reading UNIX history, but that I know very little

by tovej 1y ago

Thanks! This is a really useful source for computer science history, I was just thinking to myself that I keep reading UNIX history, but that I know very little about Multics. Looks like I can keep my evening busy for quite some time with this one.

pjmlp 1y ago
For a little while at the university I became what happens to many software engineering students, a UNIX zealot that used to write email signatures with the usual M$ joke back then. Then the university library opened my eyes to the world of Xerox PARC, and the computing decades that predated UNIX, and my point of view changed forever, that cloning UNIX all the time couldn't be the epitome of OS design. At least I agree with Rob Pike in something, "Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy" From https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-responds https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-p...
- musicale 1y ago
  I wonder who the appropriate musician is for Windows? (Note Windows also has a Posix compatibility layer - WSL1; WSL2 probably qualifies as using Linux, albeit wrapped in a VM.)