On 06/09/07, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
I think to
describe a 33yo OS
How old is Unix now? Or Windows for that matter?
Windows 1: 1985. 22y old. Current version is a derivative of NT,
released 1993; 14y old.
Unix: depends who you ask. The C version is from 1973, so it's 1y
older than MVS, but some of the mainframe heritage goes back over 40y.
But I'd submit that Unix and Windows have come vastly further from
their origins than any mainframe OS. Multiple complete rewrites,
complete changes of look, feel and capabilities, changes of platform,
etc.
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