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Article #22267Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
From: Roger B.A. Klorese
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 19:35
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 19:35
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In article <4801@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
>The point of my
>posting was that people learned from Multics and then started over.
But you're simply wrong.
People wrote UNIX to deal with the fact that they just couldn't get sufficient
access to the big iron it ran on. UNIX was one approach; Prime's PRIMOS (and
subsequently in many ways, Apollo's DOMAIN and Stratus' VOS) were attempts to
keep more Multics functionality (Prime used to refer to PRIMOS as "Multics in
a matchbox") on smaller boxes.
But were they "learning" from the Multics experience, or merely dealing with
the fact that computers were not yet powerful enough to meet their needs?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!servitude!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring) Message-ID: <35694@mips.mips.COM> Date: 8 Feb 90 19:35:19 GMT References: <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU> <20571@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <49956@sgi.sgi.com> <4791@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <8dmK02o886EM01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <4801@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 19