yakety yak wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:46:10 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
>
>> 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-multics-the-father-of-unix.shtml
>>>
>>>
>> I have no idea what I'm going to do with this... but I grabbed all I can.
>> :')
>
> "Unfortunately you can't install this on any PC, as MULTICS requires
> dedicated hardware, and there's no operational computer system today that
> could run this OS."
>
> I bet it doesn't take long for the emulator to appear. :)
You bet wrong. The hardware would not be easy to emulate, and it would make
the system slow to boot
--
The Day Microsoft makes something that does not suck is probably
the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
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