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From: token@altair.franken.de (Matthias Buelow)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 5 Apr 1997 02:23:16 GMT
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In article <E84Kwp.8ox@nonexistent.com>, Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote:

>If you want to look at the UNIX family tree,you trace back to Multics,
>of which Unics(as it was first spelled) was a single-processor version
>(so is SMP UNIX really Multix?);if you do the same for NT,you get

UNIX was neither a single-processor version of Multics nor are both
related in any other sense.

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