8 Apr
2022
8 Apr
'22
5:35 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 11:28 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 09:59:26AM -0400, Dan Cross
wrote:
I'm running Multics under emulation at home and I think it's actually
pretty cool.
I imagine that both Doug and Ken would remember it pretty well?
- Dan C.
Of course, by 1976, Unix was at 6th Edition and I
can see why no one
would
want to go back to Multics (or being tied to a
machine costing an order
of
magnitude more than a PDP-11). But one wonders
what would have happened
had
Multics started accepting timesharing, say, 9
months earlier than it did.
Do we have any people around who actively used Multics long enough to
develop a feel for it? My only experience is the printout that Rob
Gingell had on his office door which was a description of Multics
paging in library after library before it actually ran the program.
I have no idea if it was that bad.
I guess what I'm trying to ask is if Multics had modern hardware
under it, performed well, would we want to be running it?