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The future was taken away from what it might have been.
by nickdothutton 5y ago
The future was taken away from what it might have been.
- larsbrinkhoff 5y agoThere's this idea that Multics failed. Maybe because of the role it plays in Unix' origin myth. But it had a long and productive life.
- smackeyacky 5y agoNot only that, but influenced the development of operating systems like GCOS (which predated it as GECOS), which is still being used.