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From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <BZS.92Aug5235730@ussr.std.com>
Date: 6 Aug 92 04:57:30 GMT
References: <KANDALL.92Aug5145515@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <7065@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM's message of Thu, 06 Aug 1992 01:04:08 GMT
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>>It is blatantly derived from Multics.
>
>It most certainly is *NOT*. At no point did anyone ever claim that there
>was Multics code in UNIX. The fact that one was written in PL/I, and the
>other in assembly, first, and then C, may have had something to do with
>this... :)
That's not what "derived" means in this context.
It can just mean that the algorithms or internal structures were
derived.
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