From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 7:43:05 AM UTC+11, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > >> >What specifically was wrong with it when 2.0 was released in 1983?    
   > >    
   > >> It was already 20 years behind the state of the art in 1983.    
   > >    
   > >In what way?   
      
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics   
      
   From your link:   
      
   Ken Thompson, in a transcribed 2007 interview with Peter Seibel[29] refers to   
   Multics as "overdesigned and overbuilt and over everything. It was close to   
   unusable. They [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] still claim it's a   
   monstrous success, but it    
   just clearly wasn't". On the influence of Multics on Unix, Thompson stated   
   that "the things that I liked enough (about Multics) to actually take were the   
   hierarchical file system and the shell — a separate process that you can   
   replace with some other    
   process".   
      
      
   And as I said - I'm mainly interested in MSDOS from a   
   programming point of view.   
      
   Hell, I'm mainly interested in a specific C90 point of view,   
   and that pretty much makes all systems interchangeable.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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