MULTICS was developed in the 1960s by MIT and General Electric as a commercial operating system, and had been the system which UNIX writers [Thompson] and [Ritchie] had used.

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Multics, on the other hand, became a rarity, flourishing briefly in military, banking, and automotive settings but eventually relegated to a few small installations, such as the last one, located ...

The code is hosted on MIT's Multics Web site. MIT, General Electric, and Bell Labs worked to commercialize it, but Bell--originator of the more influential and still widely used Unix operating ...

Working on Multics was not a full-time occupation for any of the programmers at Bell Labs, and the GE mainframe they were working with could be used for side projects.

"With Multics they tried to have a much more versatile and flexible operating system, and it failed miserably," said Dr Peter Salus, author of the definitive history of Unix's early years. Time well ...

Two pioneers, Paul Karger and Roger Shell, both in the military at that time, were involved in this project and assigned to evaluate the security of Multics where they, as part of the analysis, put in ...

Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

Ritchie and Thompson both worked with BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), which was used on Multics. It was the basis for the B language developed by Thompson for UNIX on the 18-bit PDP-7 ...

Along the way it picked up the name Unics (Uniplexed Information and Computing Service), a play on Multics; the spelling soon morphed into Unix. It was time to spread the word.

What demonstrates Linux innovation is that the combination of lowered points of entry for contributors, cheap hardware, and social support with limited technical innovation enables widespread ...