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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. :')
>
> Who said dinosaurs don't walk amongst us?
>
You should have seen those "dinosaurs" MULTICS ran on, those systems where
*huge*
A single *CPU* contained around 70 PCBs, each with an size of around 12x12"
and full with 74xxx type chips
I have actually done maintenance on one of those few sites running it.
That system had 2 CPUs, 2 System-Control-Units (containing the RAM) and two
I/O-processors just for the actual computer itself
Using MULTICS was totally different from using any other mainframe OS at
that time
--
Microsoft? Is that some kind of a toilet paper?
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