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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <D1B81t.24H@bonkers.taronga.com>
References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <msand.2.2EF28FBA@Neosoft.Com> <D18449.Kvs@park.uvsc.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 10:05:53 GMT
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In article <D18449.Kvs@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>VMS had installed images early on, but I don't think it was nearly
>that early.

RSX-11 uses loadable modules for things like the file system.

It was also the *first* system that Dave Cutler worked on, and personally
I prefer it to either of the later ones.