* Posts by thvv

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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

thvv

so... Multics is a Unix

almost, anyway

- hierarchical file system, but the root is '>' rather than '/'

- shell, check

- case sensitive file system, check

- Commands like ls, cat, echo, mkdir, rmdir, touch: Multics has list (ls), print (pr), echo, createdir (cd), deletedir (dd), touch .. close enough.

- Plain text files, check

- commands connected with redirection and pipes: redirection, yes. the pipe symbol was not added to Multics till the 80s in imitation of Unix.

(the initial Multics I/O system was mostly designed by Bell Labs folks)

additional details: https://multicians.org/unix.html