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From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fwd:  Public access multics
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 23:05:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10B61FE8-1418-4201-A782-76E07BD2D34A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180901232537.615A418C09E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On Sep 1, 2018, at 6:25 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

>> From: Will Senn
> 
>> I was thinking that Multics was a failed predecessor of unix
>> ... straighten me out :)
> 
> I'd start with:
> 
>  https://multicians.org/myths.html
>> 

Noel, Fascinating read. I must’ve read at least a good handful of the references leading to the myths described in the writeup. As usual, I can trust the folks who lived history to remember it more clearly than many revisionists writing about it later.

Thanks for sharing.

Now, I’m wondering what awesome features Multics had that we’re still lacking in modern *nices... anything as amazing as say, my favorite filesystem, ZFS?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-02  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-01 23:25 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-02  4:05 ` Will Senn [this message]
2018-09-02  4:25   ` [TUHS] " Jeffrey H. Johnson
2018-09-02 22:30     ` Will Senn
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2018-09-01 20:31 Will Senn
     [not found] ` <CAC20D2N-Q4VY8TLZagS6J2-US1G3emXVcOdX1BQZ44HYukD6ug@mail.gmail.com>
2018-09-01 20:50   ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Clem Cole

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