Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ Matt on Sunday 11 November 2007 12:59 : \____
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>> 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
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>> Not clear why you didn't mention 'MULTICS' in the subject line of your
>> post.
>
> I never heard about MULTICS before,
Unix was (a little) modeled after MULTICS
Lore has it that it was written to enable running "Colossal Cave" on
Mini-computers. Until then, it was running only on the mainframes
MULTICS has many more features than any Unix to this day has.
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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog,
it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
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