Xah Lee's Unixism

jmfbahciv at aol.com jmfbahciv at aol.com
Thu Sep 2 09:13:33 EDT 2004


In article <ullfserte.fsf at mail.comcast.net>,
   Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn at garlic.com> wrote:
>Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid> writes:
>> MS has been borrowing code from Unix to create a real OS: TCP/IP;
>> NTFS<-ffs; memory mapped files<-mmap. 
>> Shame they keep trying to add their own ideas in too: that must be
>> what causes the crashes! 
>
>and unix goes back to multics ... which was on 5th floor, 545 tech sq.
>while cp/cms was at the science center on 4th floor, 545 tech sq ... 
>http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
>and they both go backto ctss
>

And everybody seems to think that those people never talked to
each other.  Even boasting about whose is bigger, faster,
and longer would transmit new ideas among the bit setters.

/BAH

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