Multics

Recent Original Stories (OS News)

19 Jul 2008

"This is extraordinary news for all nerds, computer scientists and the Open Source community: the source code of the MULTICS operating system (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the father of UNIX and all modern OSes, has finally been opened [get it here ]. Multics was an extremely influential early time-sharing operating system started in 1964 and introduced a large number of new ...

posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 21st Jan 2004 07:56 UTC (OS News)

12 Jul 2008

Unix was originally all about not being... Multics. If Mono is to follow a similar nomenclature (just for the kicks), we have to talk about Mono's upcoming 'monopolization' and 'monarchy' in the next generation of the Unix programming land.

posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Nov 2004 10:19 UTC (New Mobile Computing)

10 Jul 2008

I think that everyone reading OSNews will have heard at least something about QNX. You can regard this article as an introduction, but also as a review, and as a "Is-QNX-Ready-For-The-Desktop? article". To start off, I put together a short explanation of the merits of using a microkernel.