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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« on: October 13, 2011, 03:39:52 PM »
The world lost a couple great people who advanced technology dramatically and both in different ways. My one consolation is that Richie live a full life and achieved all that he might in the time he had.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 07:15:48 PM »
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No Dennis, no OSX. I wonder what Apple might have used had UNIX not been invented?
Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...

If my memory serves, TripOS (the basis for AmigaDOS) was a Unix inspired system if not a direct clone... So no UNIX, no Amiga :-/
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 08:03:01 PM »
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Nah. We just would have had to wait for CAOS.

http://www.devili.iki.fi/mirrors/haynie/caos.html
If you read, CAOS simply wasn't viable... It wouldn't have met its delivery targets and possibly would have pushed the project too late to compete with Atari and Apple
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