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		p_l on Nov 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why V7 Unix matters so much Funnily enough, BSD Sockets were essentially a crash port of code from TOPS-20... (which had much nicer shell than TOPS-10, though)

ggm on Nov 27, 2021 [–]

I liked tops10 but once you used a Unix directory tree the tops10/version model just didn't make sense any more.

If streams had made it out the door sooner sockets might not have swept the world.

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