7 Dec
1998
7 Dec
'98
3:49 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 A_Finney(a)wfi-inc.com wrote:
I know it's kind of a petty, splitting-hairs issue to users, but Linux
isn't Unix. It just looks and acts like it....
Aaron C. Finney Systems Administrator WFI Incorporated
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"UNIX is an exponential algorithm with a seductively small constant."
What??? I think I missed something here [bangs
thick head on desk]. Did
you just say that Linux is 30 years old or do I have barbecue sauce in my
ears? Is this some kind of metaphorical comparison of Linux to something
else? Did you mean just mean Unix in general?
I mean UNIX in general. I consider Linux and UNIX to be similar enough to
say that what I am running right now is as directly descended from
something that ran 30 years ago on that PDP in Bell Labs (IIRC) as any
other version of UNIX.