On Nov 11, 4:45 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> MIT releases the sources of MULTICS, the father of UNIX!
>
Even the name "Unix" is a play on the word "Multics". The Unix
creators had an approach of "small is beautiful", and wanted to show
off things like the new lowercase capable terminals. Multics was the
first multitasking OS, hence the name. Professor Fernando Corbato who
later became the head of the CS dept. at MIT, was awarded the Turing
for his role in Multics ca. 1988.
It took Microsoft 30 years after Multics to achieve a multi-user,
multi-tasking OS, but they haven't figured it how to do it well to
this day.
Perhaps now they can take a peek at the source code.
Has the father of Unix been released under GPLv2 or GPLv3?
-Ramon
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