Uboha kvalita ceskeho "vzdelani" ... Re: Internet?

Petr Nachtmann petrnach at natur.cuni.cz
Fri Mar 12 12:04:06 CET 1999


> >> Co neni uplne pravda? Dyt jen potvrzujes co jsem rikal. Jen jsi prave
> >> Vuckovi zaridil ynzynyrsky titul tim ze jsi mu to vsechno vyhledal.
> >
> >Prave, ze ne ve vsech masinach byl tehdy Unix a v zacatcich Arpanetu ani
> >nebyl, protoze tehdy jeste neexistoval. A Multics se tam IMHO nepouzival.
>
> Aha, Unix tam nebyl, Multics tam nebyl - co tam tedy bylo? Azbuka? Povidej
> - zajima me to.


http://www.thefuturesite.com/catman/history/hackhist.html


"Cheap timesharing was the medium the hacker culture grew in, and for most
of its lifespan the ARPANET was primarily a network of DEC machines. The
most important of these was the PDP-10, first released in 1967. The 10
remained hackerdom's favorite machine for almost fifteen years; TOPS-10
(DEC's operating system for the machine) and MACRO-10 (its assembler) are
still remembered with nostalgic fondness in a great deal of slang and
folklore.

MIT, though it used the same PDP-10s as everyone else, took a slightly
different path; they rejected DEC's software for the PDP-10 entirely and
built their own operating system, the fabled ITS.

ITS stood for `Incompatible Timesharing System' which gives one a pretty
good fix on their attitude. They wanted it their way. Fortunately for all,
MIT's people had the intelligence to match their arrogance. ITS, quirky
and eccentric and occasionally buggy though it always was, hosted a
brilliant series of technical innovations and still arguably holds the
record for time-sharing system in longest continuous use."





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