OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

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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RE[3]: Awesome

by Almafeta on Mon 12th Nov 2007 22:05 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Awesome"

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Forget that. There is still a crapload of DOS in Vista. Microsoft's operating systems just collect more cruft as they release newer versions. All because they are bent on supporting legacy software which, oddly enough, doesn't work very well most of the time.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic for humorous effect, or if you actually believe that...

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