Author: Hendrik Boom Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Genuine, legitimate Early Days at Bell Labs - Youtube,
the systemd of video: Was: Early Days at Bell Labs - Youtube,
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 01:11:52AM +0000, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: > Pretty good talk. Reminds me of the other time I heard Brian (in person) at Purdue in 1977-78 or so. He opened with two quotes, "The operating system comes between the user and the hardware" which got a laugh because although it was from a standard operating system textbook, he didn't mean it that way. The second was "TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach" (TSO was an early IBM operating system).
Interesting how a small outfir place like the University of Michigan
could do a better job (MTS) of time-sharing on IBM hardware than IBM
could.
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