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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:05:30 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Roland
Newbies with little history. 1. The first Unix with forks and pipes made the difference. ARPAnet preceded TCP-IP which was included in BSD. 3. Not sure where the software itself stands. The result was significant, but the software was evolving to take advantage of the hardware over that long time frame.
5. Your choices make more sense than those mentioned.
6. SABRE was straight TP: no timesharing and no conversation. You typed a transaction code and a bunch of parameter codes, and got minimal info back in a similar coded form, picked directly from disk by hashing the parameters.
8. Xerox Star software was much more innovative than Mac OS.
9. ISTM VisiCalc s-b there instead of Excel, which is really a farly minor improvement, using more available memory for functions, and a GUI for presentation, but the latter was never essential.
It is certainly true that documenting is a unpleasant woman. At least he lived long enough to realize that documenting was important. No, they don't ;-). They know what they are good at. I'm...
10. SAGE or predecessors rather than Apollo for realtime.
11. AltaVista was the Google of its day, until Google came along.
12. Didn't CHRISTMAS EXEC predate the Morris worm?
-- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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