Messages in this thread | | | From | Marty Fouts <> | Subject | RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:06:25 -0800 |
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Sorry, wrong answer, but thanks for playing. Multics was not abandoned as unusable, and was, in fact, widely used, sometimes in what would now be called "mission critical" applications, for a long time. While Honeywell finally stopped supporting Multics sometime in the 90s, I was surprised and delighted to find that there are still Multics systems running.
There may be many people on this list who know the history of Unix, but from this thread, I'm thinking that perhaps there is some confusion between the history and the mythology.
Perhaps we could get AT&T, Lucent, or whomever owns the copyright these days, to reprint the "Unix" issue of the Bell Systems Journal.
Marty
-----Original Message----- From: Richard B. Johnson [mailto:root@chaos.analogic.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:26 AM To: Michael Rothwell Cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> One historically significant "Enterprise" OS is Multics. It had nine > major goals. Perhaps we should think about how Linux measures up to > these 1965 goals for "Enterprise Computing." >
Multics??? No way. It was abandoned as unusable and part of the kernel code, basically the boot loader, was modified to become part of Unix.
You have way too many persons on this list who know the history of Unix to try this BS.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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