Re: How To Abandon Microsoft

From: Bryan Olson (fakeaddress_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:45:30 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
> [...] And UNIX is a hobbled imitation of Multics.

Unix was practically a rebellion against Multics; they are radically
different
systems. The work that Mxsmanic so ignorantly describes as a "hobbled
imitation"
won the highest award in computer science, the ACM Turing Award.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award

(Incidentally, the leader in developing Multics also won an ACM Turing
Award.) 

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--Bryan