invent a new configuration language which would enable init to perform
more complex and customisable tasks, along with a way of allowing
vendors to drop in their own service startup routines and have them run
-automatically at boot.
+automatically at boot. [Ed: I was actually slightly mistaken, and this
+came from SunOS. See <a
+href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9717758">this clarification
+</a> from someone who's been alive longer than I have.]
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