Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Tom H]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 20/04/11 02:58, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Joep L. Blom<jlblom at neuroweave.nl>
>>  wrote:
>>> On 17/04/11 21:42, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Joep L. Blom<jlblom at neuroweave.nl>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Your (OT) rant is firstly completely useless and secondly grossly in
>>>>> error.
>>>>> Or didn't you know that the MacOS is Linux (albeit BSD) with a
>>>>> not-so-intelligent overlay.
>>>>
>>>> If you're going to correct someone, *please* get your facts right!
>>>>
>>>> OS X's based on FreeBSD, which most certainly isn't Linux.
>>>>
>>>> OS X's "overlay" is being imitated by both Canonical and GNOME so it
>>>> can't be *that* unintelligent...
>>>
>>> First, Linux was a slip of the pen, (typed and not reread) and to be
>>> nitpicking: FreeBSD is not BSD but a much later incarnation of
>>> it.Moreover,
>>> I have always had the impression that Unix is coined by Kernigan and
>>> Ritchy
>>> where Ken Thomson was the third man. Don't forget:C was never intended to
>>> be
>>> a real computer language, it was only a bag of subroutines to program the
>>> operating system Unix.
>>> I got my first incarnation of Unix from K&  R in 1979 on a few tapes with
>>> a
>>> huge set of paper (documentation) for the old DEC PDP-11, (talking about
>>> real old systems) and was my successor for the PDP-8 which I bought it in
>>> 1969 working in a research institution.
>>
>> I don't follow but it doesn't matter...
>
> What is it you don't follow??
>
> The first incarnation of Unix was written for the PDP-11 from DEC. I
> mentioned that I acquired that machine after I had had experience with
> another machine of DEC, the PDP8 which was not 16-bit but 12-bit (as the
> PDP-9 and PDP-10 were). The PDP-11 was the first machine programmed in
> hexadecimal (instead of octal which were the other machines). Unix was the
> first general 16-bit OS and incorporated several principles with respect to
> security that still forms the base of ala UNIX lookalikes.

I didn't follow the purpose of the nix history. Nothing more.