40 Years of Multics, 1969-2009

gribll writes "October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing. It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used at MIT. The interview is with Multics co-developer, MIT Professor and Turing Award winner Fernando J. Corbato. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is regarded as the foundation of modern time-sharing systems. Multics was the catalyst for the development of Unix and has been used as a model of operating system design since its release four decades ago. There is also a picture gallery of Multics history."

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[alecto]

"In hindsight we might have picked a simpler language than PL/I, . . ." Now there's an understatement!

Slashdot is bad with anniversaries

[Yvan256]

October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing

and they waited until november to tell you!

Re:Hmm, Multics and Sesame Street, both 40 years o

[satellite17]

indeed,

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