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)
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