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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Interesting commentary on Unix from Multicians.
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 09:59:26AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> Of course, by 1976, Unix was at 6th Edition and I can see why no one would
> want to go back to Multics (or being tied to a machine costing an order of
> magnitude more than a PDP-11). But one wonders what would have happened had
> Multics started accepting timesharing, say, 9 months earlier than it did.

Do we have any people around who actively used Multics long enough to 
develop a feel for it?  My only experience is the printout that Rob 
Gingell had on his office door which was a description of Multics
paging in library after library before it actually ran the program.
I have no idea if it was that bad.

I guess what I'm trying to ask is if Multics had modern hardware
under it, performed well, would we want to be running it?