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

[John Day]

Yea, I remember DEC people telling me the same thing. They were taking a Window course and recognized it was VMS.

There was a big lawsuit. DEC had Microsoft by the short and curls, but in their arrogance DEC let them off.

> On Aug 18, 2025, at 05:38, Alexander Schreiber via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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