OT HP Vectra Networking

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <A_Finney_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Mon Dec 7 20:49:39 1998

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Max Eskin wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 A_Finney_at_wfi-inc.com wrote:
> > What??? I think I missed something here [bangs thick head on desk]. Did
> > you just say that Linux is 30 years old or do I have barbecue sauce in my
> > ears? Is this some kind of metaphorical comparison of Linux to something
> > else? Did you mean just mean Unix in general?
>
> I mean UNIX in general. I consider Linux and UNIX to be similar enough to
> say that what I am running right now is as directly descended from
> something that ran 30 years ago on that PDP in Bell Labs (IIRC) as any
> other version of UNIX.

I know it's kind of a petty, splitting-hairs issue to users, but Linux
isn't Unix. It just looks and acts like it....


Aaron C. Finney Systems Administrator WFI Incorporated
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"UNIX is an exponential algorithm with a seductively small constant."
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