Operating system "ranking" based on posts to losers groups (was language ranking)

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From: Daniel Finster
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 16:42

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    From: Jay Goldberg <jayg@iwl.net>
 
    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 and
    which used the slash to create pathnames for them back in the
    70's, and long before DOS ever came about.

Actually, Multics uses the `>' character for downward directory
addressing, and `<' for upward addressing.  Eunuchs, being the
ill-conceived, castrated, pseudo-Multics that it is, had to mash
them into the `/' and `..' that we all know and hate.

And Multics started using that syntax in the 60's, not the 70's.  BTW,
Multics systems still run at several locations, such as
DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL and MULTICS-A.PMS.FORD.COM (hidden behind a
firewall).  Anyone know the addresses of the others?

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From: df@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG (Daniel Finster)
Subject: Operating system "ranking" based on posts to losers groups (was language ranking)
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