____/ Rex Ballard on Thursday 15 November 2007 15:18 : \____
> On Nov 11, 8:16 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> ____/ 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.
>
> I think it was Dennis Ritchie who said, "If we had known about
> Multics, we wouldn't have created UNIX".
*smirk* Like "Linux is obsolete".
> Multics was one of the first multi-user multi-tasking operating
> systems to be used on minicomputers such as the PDP series computers.
> When AT&T donated UNIX V6 to about a hundred universities and colleges
> and universities, some of the first enhancements were attempts to
> emulate features that were available on Multics, most of these
> features were introduced in the BSD versions of Unix.
>
> Multics was not open source, so the college students at the
> Universities had to figure out how to create these features knowing
> nothing other than the description of how the feature worked on
> Multics. It might be interesting to see how different the
> implementations were.
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