From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 11:18:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mw3.texas.net (mw3.texas.net [206.127.30.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C1437B43F for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from localhost.texas.net (tcnet20-041.austin.texas.net [209.99.96.167]) by mw3.texas.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f43II4h10407; Thu, 3 May 2001 13:18:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010502140609.B35812@cec.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:20:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: Andrew Hesford Subject: Re: What is BSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ember Talent Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-May-01 Andrew Hesford wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:52:37AM -0700, Ember Talent wrote: > Back in the days when I was, oh, about -13 years old (yes, that's a > minus sign), funny, I don't feel old. > a man named Dennis Ritchie and some of his cohorts at Bell > Labs decided to build an operating system to run on their PDP-11 PDP-7 > computer. This was called UNICS, as a takeoff of the Honeywell operating > system MULTICS (at least, it runs on Honeywell computers... I can't be > sure who wrote the OS). General Electric, imortalized in the "gecos" field of passwd(5) and the UNICS -> UNIX linage is iffy. Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message