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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com> writes:

    Richard> BTW, the original Unix was written in PDP assembly
    Richard> language :-) The rewrite was written in C.  Most major
    Richard> Unixen are still written in C, and can trace their
    Richard> origins to the Bell Labs System 7 release and/or UC
    Richard> Berkeley's BSD.  Exceptions include Linux (which was
    Richard> written from scratch, and which internally bears no
    Richard> resemblance to Unix), Minix (an academic project), and
    Richard> some other variants.  The NeXTStep kernel was written in
    Richard> an obscure cousin of C++ called Objective C.

Good history lesson, Bro.

Linux actually has a good deal of the free BSD code in it, and most of
the rest of the "imported" stuff is Gnu.  The Linux kernel was
actually based on Minix.  Minix itself was written as a teaching tool,
so students could have the source code to a real, if rather skimpy,
multi-tasking, multi-user OS.

That's whats nice about free software -- everybody builds on the work
of others.  That's why it has developed so rapidly since Richard
Stallman founded the Gnu project and the Free Software Foundation 11
years ago.  For a very interesting web page, look at the FSF home page
at:

   http://www.fsf.org/

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