• Unix at 50

    From Cousin Stanley@cousinstanley@gmail.com to alt.os.multics on Sun Sep 1 08:19:24 2019
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.multics

    I happened upon the following article a couple of days ago
    and personally think it characterizes Multics in a rather
    disparaging light seemingly deeming it a failure ....

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/
    Unix at 50 : How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure

    After spending around 3 years at the Multics site in San Juan, Puerto Rico
    as an applications programmer, I think the only failure in Multics
    is that it was not further developed, sustained, and marketed more heavily ....
    --
    Stanley C. Kitching
    Human Being
    Phoenix, Arizona

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