[Coco] Re: OS Vulnerabilities

[Ward Griffiths]

On Saturday 28 February 2004 03:26 pm, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> UNIX came from an environment were it was designed primarily for
> embedded process control, and development of such.

That is very far from the case.  Unix was originally designed to (1) 
support a space travel simulation game and (2) support text processing 
for Bell Lab's patent department.  Embedding Unix has always been a 
kluge, as traditional kernels have never been really interupt-driven.
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