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		rbanffy on March 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy I remember people saying Unix was the gold standard of user-hostile operating system. That was well before I met AS/400 and MVS. And then I had contact with a Burroughs A-series and it's appropriately named OS, MCP. OTOH, I love the 3270s.

leoc on March 3, 2017 [–]

TRON's MCP was named after Burroughs', I'm quite sure. Guess who TRON/Alan Bradley was based on? :)

rbanffy on March 3, 2017 | [–]

I think it's for Alan Kay. Bonnie MacBird is his wife.

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