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Unix is born on the ashes of multics that was big and unusable.

• xte 8y ago
  As far as I know Multics was an answer to Unix, not an ancestor... Multics was named after Unix to be the opposite and is evolved in Plan9.
  • tremon 8y ago
    Wikipedia says otherwise. Multics was started in 1964, whereas Unix is from the early 1970s: In 1964, Multics was developed initially for the GE-645 mainframe [..] Bell Labs pulled out of the project in 1969; some of the people who had worked on it there went on to create the Unix system. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
    • xte 8y ago
      Mh, I have to refresh my historic knowledge then... Perhaps I have mixed ITS and Multics...