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If i remember correctly multics needed ram worth 500000$ to run.
by scns 8y ago
If i remember correctly multics needed ram worth 500000$ to run.
- pjmlp 8y agoI doubt other mainframes were much cheaper, even PDP-11 wasn't properly a bargain. Also Burroughs B5000, developed in 1961, already took security as major OS feature. The problem is that UNIX designers never took security as serious as other OS designers were doing on their OS implementations. Had UNIX been a commercial OS sold at the same price levels as VMS, OS/360 and others, instead of given to universities with a symbolic price due to Bell Labs commercial restrictions and history would have been quite different.
- jacobush 8y agoYes. No widespread adoption of Unix for instance. :)