On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:43:56PM -0800, Day Brown wrote: > Linux comes from Unix, which was designed for mainframes. > windows comes from dos, which was designed for personal desktops.
No. The original work on UNIX was done on a PDP 7, not a main frame. Its overall design was largely fixed before main frames gained the level of power that is today available in a desk top PC. Windows comes from early work on GUI done a Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The trail of stealing ideas is too complicated to review here. The rest of this article is somewhat flawed by ignorance of history. > [snip] -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
