Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups

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From: Pat Monardo
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 21:12

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In article <4bcf8m$v1h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
Larry Smith <larrys@zk3.dec.com> wrote:
>
>What a bizarre concept.  Unix came first by over a decade, and wasn't
>the first to use '/' even then, it was based on Multics, which was, if
>I recall correctly, the first major OS with hierarchical directories

I believe Multics used a very strange pathname consisting of
<'s and >'s , eg. >usr>lib . I dont know what < was used for.
maybe it was a synonym for ..

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Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
Date: 22 Dec 1995 16:12:00 -0500
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