Thus spake Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:21:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > Well technically Unix was designed for mid-sized computers... > > > > And wasn't DOS designed for the workstation? > > Nope, Dos was for 16 bit PCs. It was like Unix's under-achieving relative :) > 8.3 filenames, single-tasking, crappy shell,...
And what nobody has mentioned is that Unix was derived from Multics. Indeed, the original name was "Unics", an even more obvious pun, but that was felt to be alittle too close. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
