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Re:A computer science study plan to become a software engineer by mav3rick on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:07PM (#25451052)
Multitasking
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Re:A computer science study plan to become a software engineer by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:27PM (#25451198)
Didn't Multics have that? I mean, Multics never went anywhere, but the theory wasn't new to Unix, was it?
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Re:A computer science study plan to become a software engineer by stevofolife on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:50PM (#25451364)
Back then, Multics was designed to run on expensive and specialized proprietary hardware where as Unix could run on a variety of cheap computers.

One can say the philosophy behind Unix was new. I'm sure that's why modular and micro kernel designs caught on.

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