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CTSS

Ad hominem — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:58:22 -0800

Computer Timesharing Systems Explained parts 1 and 2. The video features Fernando J. "Corby" Corbató who led development of Compatible Time-Sharing System CTSS spured development of the competing Incompatible Timesharing System. ITS was known for an innovative TApe Editor and COrrector, called TECO, which, by route of two macro packages TEMACS and TMACS, birthed EMACS. Corby's second operating system, Multics was widely used until support was dropped bt AT&T. At a loss for a way to play Space War on a low power PDP-7 Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson sought to replace it, and started work on UNICS. By 1972 the name had changed to UNIX and boasted 10 installations worldwide, with more expected.

How can people be so stupid?

Jase_B — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:51:47 -0800

*Sigh*, not simply an act of ignorant xenophpbia, but blatent terrorism.

Guilty until proven innocent

Jase_B — Thu, 26 May 2005 23:30:18 -0800

Guilty until proven innocent. I guess no one should have been confident of her being found not guilty. At approximately 1:45pm today, Shapelle Corby of Australia was sentenced to 20 years in prison for importing narcotics into Indonesia - $4000 worth of weed that would have sold for $40,000 in Australia. $4000 worth of weed that was never fingerprinted nor tested. Her main line of defence, that the dope was the result of a bungled drug smuggling operation in Australia, backed up by the Australian Government by a letter to the Indonesian Government was not enough. Previous discussion here.