Ken Thompson & Dennis Richie worked on MULTICS (MIT and Bell Labs were both involved in the project). After Bell Labs dropped out of the project, Ken & Dennis created Unix partly as an effort to reproduce the good stuff they were missing.
MULTICS and GCOS both ran on variations of the same hardware (The G in GCOS used to be GE as in General Electric -- Honeywell kept the acronym when they bought GE's computer operation).
The GCOS field in/etc/passwd was to support a batch job submission subsystem. This field connected your Unix account and your GCOS account.
The MULTICS is not an acronym but the gag acronym I heard was Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously (that's what I heard -- http://www.multicians.org/multics-humor.html has it as Many Unnecessary Long Tables In Core Simultaneously).
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Ken Thompson & Dennis Richie worked on MULTICS (MIT and Bell Labs were both involved in the project). After Bell Labs dropped out of the project, Ken & Dennis created Unix partly as an effort to reproduce the good stuff they were missing. /etc/passwd was to support a batch job submission subsystem. This field connected your Unix account and your GCOS account.
MULTICS and GCOS both ran on variations of the same hardware (The G in GCOS used to be GE as in General Electric -- Honeywell kept the acronym when they bought GE's computer operation).
The GCOS field in
The MULTICS is not an acronym but the gag acronym I heard was Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously (that's what I heard -- http://www.multicians.org/multics-humor.html has it as Many Unnecessary Long Tables In Core Simultaneously).