Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Nov 2007 16:44 UTC, submitted by Oliver
"This is extraordinary news for all nerds, computer scientists and the Open Source community: the source code of the MULTICS operating system (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the father of UNIX and all modern OSes, has finally been opened [get it here]. Multics was an extremely influential early time-sharing operating system started in 1964 and introduced a large number of new concepts, including dynamic linking and a hierarchical file system. It was extremely powerful, and UNIX can in fact be considered to be a 'simplified' successor to MULTICS (the name 'Unix' is itself a hack on 'Multics'). The last running Multics installation was shut down on October 31, 2000."
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2005-12-15
It's a nice idea, but a lot of the time earlier products are used as the basis, at least in part, to build newer products.
I'm sure Microsoft wont release the Windows 3.11 source code because there's still bits of it in Vista. ;-)