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

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 05:56:00PM -0000, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
> 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.

Reminds me of a university course on operating systems where the
lecturer picked Windows NT (4.0 back then) internals. Going over the
Windows NT kernel API ended up being a deja vu party for me as I had just
finished about VMS internals. It was all "Hey, I've seen these system call
names and structures before ... " ;-)

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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