[Novalug] Student Computer

Jon LaBadie novalugml at jgcomp.com
Mon Apr 20 02:15:51 EDT 2009


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:56:34PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> 
> That's not how Windows was intended.  Windows was intended to be a single-user 
> system, just like DOS.  Only recently have they learned from UNIX.
> 

Its not that recent.  It was around 1985, when MicroSoft was selling
more UNIX each year than everyone else in the world combined, that
DOS was learning about pipes, hierarchial directories (using the
wrong slash), redirection, and other things.

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jon at jgcomp.com
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