From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Interesting commentary on Unix from Multicians.
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 05:30:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wh774dtvi.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W7zf8owckJ5cTWgz4oW015FaDnvGE1+xg=6TbaMB9QjFg@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Cross's message of "Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:32:05 -0400")
Dan Cross wrote:
> Interesting quotes include Fano talking about different objectives
> from the different organizations, Corby saying, "they [Bell Labs]
> dropped out three-quarters of the way through the race" (referring to
> Multics), Fano asserting that BTL left after the _research_ part of
> the project was essentially completed
Multics was started in 1964 and first went online in 1967, although it
seems likely it wasn't exactly at the top of its game yet. Bell Labs
pulled out in 1969. If that was the 75% point, 100% would be around
1971.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-08 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-07 16:32 Dan Cross
2022-04-08 5:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2022-04-08 13:34 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-08 14:14 ` Dan Cross
2022-04-08 13:59 ` Dan Cross
2022-04-08 15:28 ` Larry McVoy
2022-04-08 15:35 ` Dan Cross
2022-04-08 19:36 ` Rich Morin
2022-04-08 21:02 ` Greg A. Woods
2022-04-08 23:34 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-04-09 19:28 ` Greg A. Woods
2022-04-09 3:33 ` Adam Thornton
2022-04-09 12:10 ` tytso
2022-04-09 13:09 ` Dan Cross
2022-04-09 19:14 ` Greg A. Woods
2022-04-08 15:45 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-04-08 16:07 Noel Chiappa
2022-04-10 17:14 Noel Chiappa
2022-04-10 17:31 ` Larry McVoy
2022-04-10 20:41 ` John Cowan
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