Re: [TUHS] Interesting commentary on Unix from Multicians.

[Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>]

Dan Cross writes:
> Bell Labs dropping out of Multics in 1969 was, of course, before Unix. This
> raises the question, what did Bell Labs use instead? I imagine 360s and
> either traditional batch processing or TSS or something?

Someone who was older than me at the time like Heinz probably knows more
than I do.  My recollection is that many departments had their own random
systems as minicomputers took over.  We used 516-TSS on a Honeywell DDP-516/
I have no idea what Max Matthews ran on his DDP-224 but would guess that it
was all custom stuff.  I believe that the behemoth GE-635 aka Honeywell 6070
in the computer center ran GECOS.  I don't know if that machine was originally
there for the MULTICS project.