[ih] Where's Multics now, was Internet-history Digest

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Sun Aug 17 10:56:00 PDT 2025


According to Dave Crocker via Internet-history <dcrocker at bbiw.net>:
>On 8/17/2025 8:38 AM, Steve Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
>> Multics lives on as well, in a truncated form, as Unix 🙂
>
>
>No it does not.  Really not close.
>
>But it does actually live on as Windows.

Huh?  Windows NT was widely reported to be the seconf coming of VMS
and that's what's still inside Windows 11.

R's,
John
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