<div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":by">> <span style>Unix was developing pretty much in parallel with the ARPANET.</span></div>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":by">So I think the ARPANET was a tiny bit in advance of Unix, maybe a year or so,<br>
but not very much.<div class="yj6qo ajU"><div id=":ax" class="ajR" tabindex="0"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Depending which toddler first steps one considers comparable, that seems fair; but that is consistent with '"both were in development in mid-70's and were really useful by the '80s and ubiquitous in the '90's" reading of "<span style>pretty much in parallel". </span><div>
<br>Probably everyone here knows Dennis Ritchie was at Project MAC MULTICS at MIT as a Bell Labs person (and MAP's office-mate) until Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS leaving MIT, Honeywell to go it alone. He would have been exposed to the incipient ARPAnet developments in the air there as well as the structure of Multics, which latter is rather more obvious in Unix's metaphorical DNA. <div>
<br></div><div><div>-- </div><div>Bill<br>@n1vux <a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><br>
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