From: Noel Chiappa via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: coff@tuhs.org, tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [COFF] SOSP 1973 [was Multics<->Unix Re: Re: History of cal(1)?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:49:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250919214920.55FBF18C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Charles H Sauer
> For various reasons, lack of commercial dominance, lack of source, ...,
> there didn't seem to be any specific OS that gained mind share in the
> O.S. community until Unix did.
Before UNIX, almost all OS's were written in assembler, tying them to one
particular vendor's machines. (Multics, although in PL/I, was so specialized
to the Heneywell architecture it was in the same boat.) UNIX was really the
first portable OS (at least, that I know of - am I wrong?. I suspect thatwas
a large factor too.
Noel
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-19 21:49 Noel Chiappa via TUHS [this message]
2025-09-19 21:59 ` [TUHS] Re: [COFF] SOSP 1973 [was Multics<->Unix Re: Re: History of cal(1)? Charles H Sauer (he/him) via TUHS
2025-09-21 1:12 ` John Levine via TUHS
2025-09-21 5:25 ` Niklas Karlsson via TUHS
2025-09-22 12:51 ` Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS
2025-09-22 15:19 ` Phillip Harbison via TUHS
2025-09-22 15:24 ` Phillip Harbison via TUHS
2025-09-22 15:41 ` Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS
2025-09-22 16:45 ` Phillip Harbison via TUHS
2025-09-24 0:33 ` Dave Horsfall via TUHS
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