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- From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
-
- According to gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace):
- >Is this `continued development by the creators of Unix' just going
- >back to what Unix rejected 20 years ago?
-
- They threw away what wouldn't fit. Then they added features, but
- piece by piece, and only as they observed a need.
-
- This cycle has started again with Plan 9, which borrows heavily from
- Unix -- almost everything lives in the filesystem -- but which is in
- fact a brand new start.
-
- Unix owes much to Multics, and we can learn from it, but we needn't be
- driven by it.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 102
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