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Why?

• pjmlp 6y ago
  To gain an understanding on how it actually looked like, instead of just listening to UNIX marketing.
  • cryptonector 6y ago
    It's not marketing, is it. Unix, then Linux, won all the mindshare. No company is advertising Unix or Linux as better than Multics. Multics is culturally not a thing. It wasn't AT&T who dun it. It was Berkeley.
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      Free beer has lots of power.
      • cryptonector 6y ago
        Doesn't have to be free to get mindshare, though it helps. Multics lost the mindshare battle when Berkeley started distributing BSD. They would have had to go open source / free way back then, in 1978 or so. Mindshare, mindshare, mindshare. That's the key for this sort of thing. Oracle, for example, locked in SQL mindshare long ago. I'm not sure that Larry Ellison understands this -- after all, he (well, Safra Katz) killed OpenSolaris when that was a vehicle for gaining mindshare. But then again, maybe it was too late for Solaris anyways.
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• downerending 6y ago
  1. For the sheer interestingness of history. 2. To mine it for ideas. I did this once with a different "old" OS that you never heard of. Found a cool feature, added it to Linux, and there's a fair chance you use it today. (details omitted to avoid self-dox)