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.

-- hendrik