On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 11:28 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

I'm running Multics under emulation at home and I think it's actually
pretty cool.

I imagine that both Doug and Ken would remember it pretty well?

        - Dan C.