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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: Does Linux use segmentation?
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 16:26:29 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- References: <1992Nov13.140201.2005@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov13.140201.2005@athena.mit.edu> Graham@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
- >
- >There are actually Multics systems still around, it's not the failed lab
- >experiment that most text books would lead you to believe. Although
- >Multics didn't meet all of it's initial design goals, it wasn't a failure.
- >The main reason it didn't catch on was mostly due to a lack of marketing.
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- The reason it didn't catch on is because it was a _heinous beast_.
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- Followups to comp.unix.wizards, which has hashed out this thread more
- than once before and will surely be glad to provide you with a
- summary.
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