9 Sep
2017
9 Sep
'17
5:11 a.m.
If no Unix... No Mac OSx or Linux or *BSD.
Linux came from the Posix spec. OSx came from a Unix personality on Mach...
Perhaps the Prime OS or perhaps Domain OS from Apollo would have been the workstation of
the tech world.
Apollo had a lead on Sun back in the day.
Bill
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Robinson <angus(a)fairhaven.za.net>
To: William Pechter <pechter(a)gmail.com>, The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org>, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
Sent: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:14
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!
You also would have Mac OS, Linux,etc
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 5:14 PM William Pechter <pechter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If it wasn't for Unix, it possibly would have
been VMS on Alpha... Or
OS/2. Early Windows 3.x wouldn't have cut it.
Perhaps without the Unix workstations DEC might have survived.
Interesting alternate history...
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:56
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!
Sadly no longer with us (he exited in 2011), he was forked in 1941. Just
think, if it wasn't for him and Ken, we'd all be running Windoze, and
thinking it's wonderful.
A Unix bigot through and through, I remain,
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."