Post B6SIjj1JklBjSvOrXU by tml@mementomori.social
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 (DIR) Post #B6SGn6mBgZmy6UoBkW by niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
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       MULTICS: We need an industrial-grade system with fault-tolerance and the ability to lock everything down to accounts and ACLs.UNIX: We need a lab-grade system that is allowed to crash 10 times a day for grad students to test their new hacks.Cloud services: We need an industrial-grade hypervisor with fault-tolerance and the ability to lock everything down to virtual machines, so that we can run lab-grade systems that are allowed to crash 10 times a day for grad students to test their new hacks.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6SIaK3dC7d9RGzyhk by cinnamon@mk.absturztau.be
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       @niconiconi MS-DOS: We need CP/M, but for 16 bit and with directories. No crash fail tolerance required as long as you have Ctrl+Alt+Del, or even access to the physical power button.Xenix: No, no, don't look here. Look there. Points finger to Windows.Windows 3.11/95/98/Me: Now we need it to look pretty and fake it till you make it.Windows NT/2000/XP: We made it. Sort of ​:blobcatgooglyshrug:​
       
 (DIR) Post #B6SIjj1JklBjSvOrXU by tml@mementomori.social
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       @niconiconi Grad students? Dennis Ritchie got his PhD in 1968. Ken Thompson got his Master's in 1966. UNIX was born in the 1970s.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6SIjjQ8GV2Oht0gDY by niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
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       @tml@mementomori.social And guess who were the most active users outside Bell?