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Microsoft will rest its jackboot on Windows 7, 8.1's throat on new Intel CPUs in 2018 – not 2017

peter@oxscisoft.com

Re: M$

"It is not an OS"

In 1987/88 when I was working for DEC I had a stack of Ultrix manuals on my desk. I have a distinct memory from that time of reading Dennis Ritchie's opening statement in Volume 1:

"Unix is not an operating system. It is an I/O multiplexer"

Now it was a long time ago, maybe my memory is faulty, so I wonder if others can recall this from the original AT&T documentation set.

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