Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 12 November 2007 11:47 : \____
>>
>>> dapunka <dapunka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> On 11 Nov, 22:14, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > ____/ Matt on Sunday 11 November 2007 12:59 : \____
>>>>>
>>>>> >> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>> >>> MIT releases the sources of MULTICS, the father of UNIX!
>>>>>
>>>>> >>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> >>> | This is extraordinary news for all nerds, computer scientists
>>>>> >>> | and the Open Source community: the source code of the MULTICS
>>>>> >>> | operating system (Multiplexed Information and Computing
>>>>> >>> | Service), the father of UNIX and all modern OSes, has finally
>>>>> >>> | been opened.
>>>>> >>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>http://www.kirps.com/web/main/_blog/all/mit-releases-the-sources-of-m...
>>>>>
>>>>> >> Not clear why you didn't mention 'MULTICS' in the subject line of
>>>>> >> your post.
>>>>>
>>>>> > I never heard about MULTICS before, so I was (perhaps wrongly)
>>>>> > assuming that saying "the father of UNIX"--as in the headline of the
>>>>> > cited blog item--would be OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> You took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to say "most
>>>>> people probably haven't heard of multics, so it would be a sh1t
>>>>> headline."
>>>>>
>>>>> My case proven, I think.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not much of a geek, but I know what MULTICS was, in relation to
>>>> UNIX. Hell, most any history of the Free Software movement will go
>>>> through the basics: At Bell Labs, there was MULTICS, then UNIX...
>>>> which then leads by different paths to BSD (Thompson), GNU (Stallman)
>>>> and Linux (Torvalds). Even Wikipedia tells it that way, methinks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, so in your world, everyone has read the same things as you?
>>>
>>> I think not...
>>
>> dapunka makes a good point though. I don't know how I ever missed it.
>> I'll admit that I have poor knowledge of the UNIX family tree.
>>
>
> Well, it remains a relative obscure OS, despite it's importance for later
> development.
> After all, there were just 86 sites (I believe) running it, of those was
> just a single one in germany (University of Mainz). I actually was one of
> 2 people who could do maintenance on that machine (it was basically a
> standard Honeywell mainframe, but contained several PCBs either different
> from the standard version or not even present in the standard machine)
If I recall correctly... those 86 sites were each paying for multi-million
dollar contracts to use the software and hardware... Yeah, a hand full of
users, but BOY DID THEY PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE...
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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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