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Re:The Unix Operating System (1982) [video] by TomMarius on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:21AM (#23368305)
Wasn't that the same in operating systems like MS-DOS and its predecessors, and on Apple computers as well?
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Re:The Unix Operating System (1982) [video] by nineteen999 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:46AM (#23368391)
Well yeah I guess if you are thinking in terms of batch scripts, but DOS didn't exist until 1980, and UNIX had already been doing this within a multiuser, multitasking environment since at least 1972.
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Re:The Unix Operating System (1982) [video] by TomMarius on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:49AM (#23368403)
Oh, my bad, I confused the decade.
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