[PLUG] Linux = Unix?

Paul Mullen pem at nellump.net
Thu Nov 14 18:41:49 UTC 2002


On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:33:57AM -0800, Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> 
> Linux is indeed a clone of Unix. Unix was ``invented'' by Ken Thompson
> after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play
> games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritche, inventor of the ``C''

Wow. Creating a brand new OS just so you can game on some second-hand
hardware. That's truly hardcore.  :-)


Paul





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