[Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Unics was introduced in Sept of 1969.  Unix Time Sharing System was born out 
of UNICs in Nov of 1971. 

Heres a link to some history of Unix:

http://www.levenez.com/unix/

on his page he m entions other Unix like OSes that are not on his chart. OS9 
from Microware is on the list. 

james

On 30 Jan 2007 at 22:32, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> Mike Huskey wrote:
> > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070129-8728.html
> > 
> > How many years has os-9 been around? It seems to be completely
> > designed around a modular concept.
> 
> And of course Unix has been around at least since the late 60s, early
> 70s, from which OS-9 (and a host of other OSes such as MS/PC-DOS),
> borrowed concepts.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Phill.
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