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Now contrast with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/320402189 , the widely recycled Wikipedia edit and the claim that had to be explained; which that does not even support, let alone explain.

The Armando Stettner named in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/320396668 and other edits by the same person is the person who told the "sorry excuses for engineers" anecdote about xyrself, recorded in A Quarter Century of UNIX by Peter H. Salus.

The irony is that there is better, more specific, documentation of M. Cutler's opinion of OS/2 (specifically its mutex mechanism) than there is of M. Cutler's opinion of Unix.



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