As the license plate that shows up in Cupertino says, UNIX is just MULTICS without balls.
However, before Multics the GE timesharing computers were certainly running an OS in the late 60's.
At the same time GECOS was running on the 600 series, Exec8 on the Univac 1100 series, IBM came out with OS/360, and Honeywell had no less than three OSs.
Gawd, I feel old.
And for those who think that those systems were just loaders - think again - MP systems were running at that time as well, and I was working on systems with fully protected partitions by '68.
Most of the article, and many of the supporting responses seem to be opposed to the concept of individuals profiting from their talents if those talents are engaged in creating IP. As a creator of IP I find myself wondering if the same objections are raised against the huge amounts of money paid to sports and theatrical (including movie) celebrities -who in the final analysis derive their compensation from - you guessed it - IP.
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As the license plate that shows up in Cupertino says, UNIX is just MULTICS without balls. However, before Multics the GE timesharing computers were certainly running an OS in the late 60's. At the same time GECOS was running on the 600 series, Exec8 on the Univac 1100 series, IBM came out with OS/360, and Honeywell had no less than three OSs. Gawd, I feel old. And for those who think that those systems were just loaders - think again - MP systems were running at that time as well, and I was working on systems with fully protected partitions by '68.
Most of the article, and many of the supporting responses seem to be opposed to the concept of individuals profiting from their talents if those talents are engaged in creating IP. As a creator of IP I find myself wondering if the same objections are raised against the huge amounts of money paid to sports and theatrical (including movie) celebrities -who in the final analysis derive their compensation from - you guessed it - IP.