re MULTICS. I found that section totally unfair. They eventually built a usable, reliable system with microkernel and HLL. Got turned into first B2-class syste

re MULTICS. I found that section totally unfair. They eventually built a usable, reliable system with microkernel and HLL. Got turned into first B2-class system after the pen test.... However, anyone reading that section would've thought it had only one, good attribute and wonder if it was even built as a product. Wonder why he wrote it up that way. Indeed, I assume ignorance. When he said "Multics was never widely used outside MIT." ... well, MIT-MULTICS certainly ran more of MIT than the Pentagon's system ran the DoD, but the military appreciated its security, among other things did their budget (or looking at the site linked below, maybe just the Air Force's). Ford and GM had them, the latter with 17,000 registered users, Honeywell Bull (France) was really fond of it; the Multicians web site lists 84 sites, 30 with histories: http://www.multicians.org/sites.html http://www.multicians.org/sites.html. I don't know if it would have succeeded in the long term if Honeywell had ran the project with more intelligence (blamed the decision to microcode the first pure Multics processor on their deciding to can that project because of algae in the cooling system), and without crippling infighting (they tried to slam together their original computer effort, GE's GECOS and Multics and minicomputer? systems, and the SDS/Xerox's), but even with those problems it sold so well on its own merits that Honeywell had to actively kill it off.