[TUHS] Interesting commentary on Unix from Multicians.

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Fri Apr 8 15:30:41 AEST 2022


Dan Cross wrote:
> Interesting quotes include Fano talking about different objectives
> from the different organizations, Corby saying, "they [Bell Labs]
> dropped out three-quarters of the way through the race" (referring to
> Multics), Fano asserting that BTL left after the _research_ part of
> the project was essentially completed

Multics was started in 1964 and first went online in 1967, although it
seems likely it wasn't exactly at the top of its game yet.  Bell Labs
pulled out in 1969.  If that was the 75% point, 100% would be around
1971.


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