8 Apr
2022
8 Apr
'22
5:45 p.m.
Dan Cross writes:
Bell Labs dropping out of Multics in 1969 was, of
course, before Unix. This
raises the question, what did Bell Labs use instead? I imagine 360s and
either traditional batch processing or TSS or something?
Someone who was older than me at the time like Heinz probably knows more
than I do. My recollection is that many departments had their own random
systems as minicomputers took over. We used 516-TSS on a Honeywell DDP-516/
I have no idea what Max Matthews ran on his DDP-224 but would guess that it
was all custom stuff. I believe that the behemoth GE-635 aka Honeywell 6070
in the computer center ran GECOS. I don't know if that machine was originally
there for the MULTICS project.