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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by thisrod on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:29PM (#15991763)
The way I see that history, Multics was the second system that never shipped, and Plan 9 was the fourth system that belatedly did ship Multics.
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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by cjhanks on Sunday December 24, 2017 @06:05PM (#16001771)
I don't mean to be argumentative. MULTICS was in use by Honeywell Aerospace into the early 90's simulating physics models.

There was a centralized computer which was programmed via punch cards which you could dial into to submit your specific simulation and later return to for results.

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by thisrod on Monday December 25, 2017 @01:50AM (#16003067)
Good point. Multics was used just as much, or little, as Plan 9 was. We might wish our predecessors had made the jump to distributed, securable operating systems, but there was never a time at which it made sense to do so.
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