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-An [abbreviation|Acronym] for SystemAdministrator.
+An [abbreviation | Acronym] for SystemAdministrator.
-The term SysAdmin was first used on Multics, http://www.multicians.org/ a mainframe operating system for GE (later Honeywell) mainframes
. It comes from the "project" name used by system administrators.
+The term SysAdmin was first used on [
Multics]
. It comes from the "project" name used by system administrators. The system administration software for [Multics] was written in about 1969, by Joseph F. Ossanna and Michael J. Spier. No one remembers now who coined the term or adopted the convention of CamelCase
.
-The system administration software for Multics was written in about 1969, by Joseph F. Ossanna and Michael J. Spier. No one remembers now who coined the term or adopted the convention of CamelCase. (
The first Multics SysAdmin other than test users was TomVanVleck, then a member of the MIT research staff.)
-
-The
piece of the Multics system administration code that was
responsible for logging in users,
roughly equivalent to Unix getty, is online at http://www
.multicians.org/dialup_.html
+The first Multics SysAdmin other than test users was TomVanVleck, then a member of the [
MIT]
research staff. You can take a look at [the main loop of the Multics answering service | http://www.multicians.org/dialup_.html]. This
piece of the [
Multics]
system administration code is
responsible for logging in users and is
roughly equivalent to [
Unix]'
getty(8)
.
