Re: How innovative is Linux?

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Proc type stuff is a lot older than Linux or Unix AFAIK. Loadable modules
> ditto but the full load/unload/autoload stuff I've not seen pre-Linux.

Representation of process state and control of that state via files on
a filesystem?  AFAIK, it's 80s stuff and at least one of the sources
had been research branch in Bell Labs - whether you call it Unix or not...

Do you have any references for that animal in earlier systems?  A lot
older than Unix would mean 50s or 60s...
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