From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:28:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: <20170908210450.C0FA618C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20170908210450.C0FA618C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Dave Horsfall > > > Just think, if it wasn't for him and Ken, we'd all be running Windoze, > > and thinking it's wonderful. > > It's actually worse than that. > > We'd be running a Windows even worse than current Windows (which has managed > to pick up a few decent ideas from places like Unix). > > Noel > Heck, even MS-DOS 2 as we knew it would not have been what it was, were it not for Unix. -uso.