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It seems a bit older than that. Much of the design goals for Harvey were in the early MULTICS systems of the 70's. In some ways I view Plan9 as Bell Labs at
by cjhanks 9y ago
It seems a bit older than that. Much of the design goals for Harvey were in the early MULTICS systems of the 70's. In some ways I view Plan9 as Bell Labs attempt to bridge the great components of MULTICS and UNIX together.
- thisrod 9y agoThe way I see that history, Multics was the second system that never shipped, and Plan 9 was the fourth system that belatedly did ship Multics.
- cjhanks 9y agoI don't mean to be argumentative. MULTICS was in use by Honeywell Aerospace into the early 90's simulating physics models. There was a centralized computer which was programmed via punch cards which you could dial into to submit your specific simulation and later return to for results.
- thisrod 9y agoGood point. Multics was used just as much, or little, as Plan 9 was. We might wish our predecessors had made the jump to distributed, securable operating systems, but there was never a time at which it made sense to do so.